Understanding the loom – my first single colour (huck lace) pattern

A long ago I knitted a shawl from Wetterhoff Silvia silk merino blend yarn and fell in love with its softness. Last year, when I visited Wetterhoff headquarters in Tampere, I was given three skeins of this yarn in this beautiful olive green shade. Now, I wanted to learn more about weaving and make a square shawl. My challenge was then to create a pattern with the weave only. This meant that I had to get to know my loom better to make huck lace.

After some consideration, I decided to try making huck lace. Huck lace is a weave, where the pattern is created by using float yarns. With some yarns, it may even resemble lace after the fabric is wetted and blocked.

Making it

Here is how the project went:

About the huck lace shawl pattern

The pattern I ended up using is actually a mirror image of the one I first described on the video. (Sorry about the confusion.) They both work due to the symmetry. However, if you want to see the pattern, here it is:

Wetterhoff Silvia has a thickness of tex 50/2 and my density was 8 yarns/cm. Each huck lace block has 45 yarns.

Some warp calculations

These are from the notes I made during the warping and weaving. I don’t guarantee that they won’t contain any errors but they may help someone who wants to make something similar!

Length for beginning and end knots etc.	0.60 m
Length of the shawl	0.75 m
Fringe	0.12 m
Approximate warp length	1.4 m
The length of yarn needed	1431 m
The weight of yarn needed	143 g

Number of yarns	Weave	Repeat	Width (cm)
52	even/plain	1	7
45	huck lace (alternating with the even weave below)	5	28
45	even/plain (alternating)	5	28
1	huck lace	1	6
52	even/plain	1
total: 599 yarns			75

The finished huck lace shawl.

I didn’t finally brush the shawl. I just wet it and let it dry.

I haven’t had a chance to wear the shawl yet as the weather has been too hot, however, it looks pretty as it is!

Thank you for reading and see you soon! Happy crafting!