I received an awesome question from a reader wanting to know how to make a circular weave that has an off-centered middle. I agree with her that the off-centered middle of circular weaves looks so awesome, so of course I wanted to share with all of you how to do this too!
I think I’m mostly excited about this post because I’ve been admiring the off-centered weaves myself and this question led me to giving it a try. If you’re looking for directions on how to warp a centered circular weave, you can find that here.
Let’s jump right into it…
step 1|| tie your warp thread to the loom frame, as you normally would.
step 2|| in my first image, I’m showing you with the blue string where I would normally bring my warp thread straight across the loom to make a centered circular weave. Since we’re making an off-centered circular weave, I’m bringing my warp thread off to one side of straight across.
step 3|| just like you normally would, bring the warp thread around the top tab to the right, then back down to the tab on the left side of where you started.
step 4|| you’ll continue to keep warping so that the top threads move over to the right and the bottom threads move over to the left in a clockwise direction. This causes a cross over of your warp threads to make a middle of your weave. But the difference with the off-centered weave is that for your bottom warping you’ll want to warp around each tab and at the top of the weave you’ll want to warp across every other tab. This is because the center of the circle is tighter with the warp threads closer together and we moved our center towards the bottom of the circular loom, making the bottom of the loom tighter when warping.
step 5|| continue warping each of the bottom tabs towards the left and every other top tab towards the right until you have an even number of open (or un-warped) tabs on each side. In my picture I have 10 open tabs and closed warped tabs on my bottom and every other warped tabs on my top.
step 6|| once an even number of open tabs is reached, finish your warping by doing every other tab for the rest of the loom. This completes your circle.
step 7|| now you’ll have a bunch of warp threads that cross over making a center, we’ll group them and tie off your middle. Find the spot where the first warp threads cross under the last warp threads and bring your warp string through that gap and around, pulling it tight. This gathers the warp threads together. You can wrap the warp thread around another grouping also if you like.
step 8|| turn your loom over and in the back of the warping, pass your warp string under the thread that looped around the middle, then tie it off in a single knot at the back of the center. Trim the warp thread, leaving a end that is long enough to tuck in the back of your weave later on.
Just like that you have a circular weave with an off-centered middle! I’m very excited about this, because these types of weaves look so interesting. In the next post I’ll share some tips on how to weave so that the larger side fills up without making your weave look odd, because you know we can’t just weave around and around like we normally would.
If you make an off-centered weave and you have Instagram, please tag me, I would love to see your weaves!
Happy Weaving!
Kate
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