The blue waves of Saimaa flickers on the Rep weave table runner

Instructions for winding the warp

Wind the warp with four ends. (thr. = threads)
4 x 2 threads dark blue 8286 + 2 threads bleached (= 16 threads)
4 x 1 thr. dark blue + 1 thr. bleached + 1 thr. blue 8285 + 1 thr. light grey 8278 (= 16 threads)
12 x 2 thr. blue + 2 thr. light grey (= 48 threads)
4 x 1 thr. light grey + 1 thr. blue + 1 thr. bleached + 1 thr. dark blue (= 16 threads)
4 x 2 thr. bleached + 2 thr. dark blue (= 16 threads)
12 threads bleached
4 x 2 thr. bleached + 2 thr. dark blue (= 16 threads)
4 x 1 thr. light grey + 1 thr. blue + 1 thr. bleached + 1 thr. dark blue (= 16 threads)
12 x 2 thr. blue + 2 thr. light grey (= 48 threads)
4 x 1 thr. dark blue + 1 thr. bleached + 1 thr. blue + 1 thr. light grey (= 16 threads)
4 x 2 threads dark blue + 2 threads bleached (= 16 threads)
Repeat 3 x from the beginning.

AMOUNT OF WARP YARN NEEDED, length 10 m
Cotton Yarn 8/2, tex 76×2
1 kg = approx. 6800 m, Garnhuset i Kinna
bleached (= white) 255 g
8278 light grey 50 g
8286 dark blue 205 g
8285 blue 275 g = 985 g in total.

 

Weaving instructions

For the border, weave 3,5 cm with the bleached cotton yarn 16/2. Weave the runners according to the treadling instructions using the white Minibom String Yarn as the bulky weft and the bleached cotton yarn 16/2 as the fine weft.

The height of 1 square is 7 bulky weft + fine yarns = 2,7 cm. The woven length is 135 + borders á 3,5 cm.

Amount of weft yarn needed

Minibom String Yarn
1 kg = n. 900 m, Garnhuset i Kinna
white 126 g
Cotton Yarn 16/2, tex 38×2
1 kg = approx. 13000 m
bleached (= white) 13 g

Finishing

Sew the ends with 3-step zigzag stitches and cut the pieces apart. Stem the fabrics. Sew the borders by hand or machine stitch. The finished border width is 1 cm.

Wash by hand the first time 40-60oC, do not twist or fold. In the future, you can also wash the table runner in the machine. Stem or press the table runner after washing.

 

We wove two table runners and one sample into this warp. In the sample is experimented with thick weft alone without a thin thread. The pattern become so beautiful that we weaved in another green blue Homeland warp a striped rep runner in accordance with this sample. In the picture above there are two rep runners. The first is woven with light grey mop yarn and cotton yarn 8/2 and the other with the threads in this pattern instructions, white Minibom yarn and cotton yarn 16/2.