When I Said Complicated...

Day 162: This is Norse Kitchen, and when I said it was complicated, I meant complicated! But only in the threading. The weaving/treadling is actually relatively easy, and especially once the bottom border is done and you're into the central motifs. There, it's just a matter of 1/4 three times, 3/4 three times, 1/4 three times, 1/2 three times, over and over and over until you're ready to add the border again at the end. Oh, did I mention that this is woven on a four-shaft loom, and that the design is entirely loom-controlled? I can't imagine how anyone developed the draft ages before weaving software became a thing. From the time I got my copy of "A Handweaver's Pattern Book," Norse Kitchen has been on my Bucket List. To me, it represented the ultimate challenge for a four-shaft loom. As I am weaving it, there are 497 ends (495 for the cloth, and a floating selvedge adds 2 more). That it required meticulous care in threading goes without saying, proof of the aphorism, "Patience is its own reward."