INKLE… LACE?

Because lace depends on the presence of holes and is usually woven as a light, loose fabric where warp and weft can shift and leave open spaces, it isn't something we associate with bandweaving.

Angela K. Schneider

INKLE… LACE? Whether it's done on an inkle loom or with tablets, bandweaving makes a dense, warp-faced material—which wouldn't seem to lend itself to lace techniques. But I got to thinking about weaving lace and weaving bands and found myself wondering “What if?” Generally speaking, woven lace is made either by floats or by hand manipulation. Floats on the inkle loom give us pick-up patterns (warp floats) or brocade (weft floats) rather than lace. But what if we applied hand-manipulated lace techniques to inkle bands? Would the bands look like lace? Would they look like nothing? (Worse, would they make a tangled mess?) Would it be something in between—not lace, but an interesting surface texture? I suspected, and hoped, it would be the latter and set out to weave a…

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Little Looms (Digital) - 1 Issue, Spring 2025

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