Weaving Techniques || Soumak Weave Notes and Video!

I have had a few requests about making a video on the soumak weave and since I haven’t made a silly stop motion weave video in a while, I felt like this was the perfect time.

I love the braid effect that the soumak weave creates and it can look different depending on what fibers you’re weaving with. When I use a worsted weight yarn, it makes a nice small braid, but I can also soumak with wool roving to create a large puffy braid. I’ve also combined a bunch of different threads to create a large textured braid. Play around with your soumak weaving and see what you can create!

If you want to see the technique in motion, here is the video for you. I hope you enjoy it!

And because I also received a question on what do I do with the thread tails to finish the soumak weave, here are two examples:

1| if my soumak is on the smaller side, I will just tuck the end tails in the back of my soumak “stitches” and trim them. As you can see in this picture, I did the soumak stitch with three threads at once, so in the back I tucked the one set of thread tails in (the navy arrow shows the direction). I then tucked in the other set of thread tails (the purple arrow shows this direction).

2| if my soumak is large, like roving or numerous threads at once. I simply tuck the thread tails in the unused warps and trim. Then I was as normal next to the soumak and the end tails get locked into the warp threads.  More on weaving with roving here. 

Let me know if you enjoy these videos and find them helpful. They take more time to make, but if you like them then I will make some more. And if you really really like them, show your support and give them that thumbs-up on YouTube!

Happy Weaving!

Kate

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