Bobbin weaving for beginners: a master class, schemes and recommendations

An ancient type of folk art is bobbin weaving. In Russia, this needlework was not immediately called lace. Initially, this word was applied to any decoration that adorned a product around the edge. Weaving of bobbins was brought to Russia from Europe in the seventeenth century. Then the word "lace" was assigned to products woven on bobbins.

Types of lace products

Laces can be either measured or piece.

The first ones are measured in meters. They are narrow (1-3 cm), medium (up to 6 cm), wide (more than 6 cm). In addition, measured lace is distinguished by shape:

1. The seam has a narrow edge on both sides.
2. An agramant from both edges is serrated.
3. The edge is serrated on one side and flat on the other.

Piece lace is a complete, whole product: a tablecloth, curtain, cloak, jacket, vest, boa, scarf, collar, cuffs, napkin, etc.

Technical equipment

Bobbin weaving begins with the preparation of tools and fixtures. There are not so many of them:

1. Roller. It can be done independently. To do this, take a piece of dense fabric. The size of the piece will depend on whether the roller is large or small. For beginners, they are the most comfortable with a size of 40 X 60 or 60 X 80 cm. On the long sides, a hem of 2 cm is made for him. The short sides are sewn together and a cylinder is obtained. A lace is threaded into the binder on one side and tightened. Next, the roller is filled with filler. It can be foam rubber, hay, sawdust. Then it should be covered with a cardboard circle and tighten the second binder. The roller is ready.
2. Stand. It is needed to give stability to the roller. It can be made from a rectangular piece of foam. The two opposite sides should be twisted and fixed so that a hollow forms in the middle in which the roller can be laid.
3. Bobbins for weaving lace are wooden sticks that have a “neck” for winding threads.
4. Pins Needed to secure bound threads. There should be many, at least a hundred.
5. Knitting hook. Used to grip threads.
6. Chip - a picture in which dots show the places where the pins are pierced.

Threads. They can be of different thicknesses. It is best to use linen or silk, they give minimal shrinkage after washing the product. During the training period, you can use cotton.

Winding bobbin threads

Patience is what bobbling requires. For beginners, the very first step is winding threads. She will become the training of this quality of character.

Bobbins are used in lacework only in pairs, one thread is wound on two bobbins. This is done like this:

• You need to take one of the bobbins with your right hand, and the thread with your left. With your finger you need to press the end of the thread to the neck of the bobbin, and with your left hand make several revolutions around it to secure the thread.
• When it is fixed, rotate the bobbin, winding the thread around the neck. With your left hand you need to hold it, adjusting the uniform distribution along the entire length of the neck of the whooping cough.
• After wounding 2-3 meters, it is fixed with a loop. After that, the bobbin should hang on a thread and not unwind.
• Then, without tearing, they unwind another 2-3 m from the skein and only then they cut it off. The free end is wound on a second bobbin and is also looped. In this case, between the bobbins should remain 20 cm of thread.

Thread replacement during weaving

If the thread ends during weaving, then you need to do the following:

1. Unwind it, freeing the bobbin, and leave the end 20 cm long.
2. Screw on a new seat a new one.
3. Secure the end with a knot on a pin, which to stick 5 cm above the place of weaving.
4. Connect the left end of the old thread with the new one. Wrap a double thread around the bobbin and secure with a loop.
5. Weave continue with double thread.
6. After the new thread is sufficiently fixed, the old one can be cut and weaved further than one.

Bobbin weaving: learning the basics

When weaving in both hands is a pair of whooping cough. All weaves are made in two ways to move the tool in hands:

1. To transfer means to swap them in one hand. This is done with the thumb so that the right bobbin spreads over the left.
2. To weave means to shift one bobbin from hand to hand. In this case, the right bobbin from the left hand should spread through the left bobbin in the right hand.

Bobbin weaving is of three types:

1. Weave in half-plaiting: to weave - to weave.
2. To weave in full braid: to cross - to weave - to cross.
3. Weave with linen: weave - twist - weave.

Lace Elements

There are 4 main elements of lace-making: a whisker, a linen cloth without a pair of pairs, a linen with a pair of all pairs and a linen with a pair of extreme pairs.

The whip is carried out in half-plaiting (perevit - to weave), after each reception the threads are pulled, for which bobbins are spread apart.

Linen without a twist of steam is woven on several pairs of whooping cough. Here you will need a chip. For weaving products in several pairs, it is necessary. Its width is 12 mm, the distance between the points is 6 mm. You need to take at least 7 pairs of whooping cough.

Further weaves according to the instructions:

1. 6 pins are installed above the chip, a pair of bobbins are hung on each. All of them are called shared, during weaving do not change their direction.
2. To the left of the first pair is a running pair. She moves from left to right and from right to left.
3. Weaving begins on the left side. A running pair is taken in the left hand, and the first lobar pair in the right. Pairs are interwoven with linen (weave - twist - weave).
4. Running pair in turn intertwines with each shared.
5. In the interweaving of the last lobar and running (between them) they put a pin. They braid it like this: move the chassis once, do not interchange the shared one, but weave it with a linen (weave - twist - weave).
6. After that, the running pair is shifted to the right hand, and weaving continues to the left.

A linen cloth with an alternating of all pairs is made according to the same chip as a linen cloth without an alternating pair:

1. In the process, the running pair is woven into a full braid (cross - weave - cross - weave).
2. A pin is placed under the weave of the running pair from the last lobar. It is entangled in a pereviv: a pair of running gears should be twisted two times, a joint pair should be transposed and weaved - twisted - weaved.

A linen towel with an overflow of extreme pairs is also woven along the same cleavage:

1. This bobbin weaving begins, as does the weaving of the linen with an interruption of all pairs.
2. The second and the next (to the penultimate) are woven like a linen without a pair of pairs.
3. The penultimate share weave is fully braided (cross - weave - cross - weave).
4. The latter is plaited into a perevoik, as for a flap with a perevozkom all pairs.

The scan

A thicker thread is used for scanning than with the main weave. To do this, you can add the existing two times. In the middle between pins with shared threads a pin is stuck for hanging bobbins with a scan.

Weaving to the bobbin with a scan is carried out in the usual way:

• A “rope” scan will be obtained if the chassis is passed between the filaments so that the right one is above the chassis and the left one is under it. When the running thread returns from the other side, they cross the scan and pass the running: the right thread is on top, the left one is under the running.

• A “pigtail” scan will turn out if you take not one, but two pairs of whooping cough. In this case, the chassis is passed between two pairs of filigree, and when the filament is returned, the filament is not shifted in one direction, but in different directions.

Drawstring Technique

Coupling weaving lace for bobbins for beginners is the execution of a thimble. So called the main element of the called lace. It is woven with linen, often decorated with a scan. And the docking points here are connected by couplers, which are carried out with a crochet hook.

Bobbin weaving: wilush workshop

Piece products are often made of only one wilderness, which forms a variety of patterns. Mastering the skill of its weaving is the basis of learning lace-making.

• We prepare a bobbin weave.

• We wind the threads.

• Hang bobbins on pins.

1. Weave a simple linen before turning.

• At the same time, they begin to perform a turn, leaving the running pair, turning the extreme lobar into the running one.
• Returning, the former extreme lobster weaves the former chassis and, in turn, is left alone, and the old chassis is sent to bind the lobsters.
• Alternately, the extreme lobar becomes the chassis until the turn is completed. At the turning point, the pins do not stick.

• The hitching is performed at the place of docking of the fork after turning. To do this, remove the pin, the knitting hook is inserted into the loop from above, hook the thread and pull it.

A bobbin is threaded into the large loop formed, and the thread is tightened. The weaving continues with the running pair that participated in the coupling.

• Next, you need to weave a chip.

We hope that the step-by-step instruction proposed in the article will help novice lace-makers make their first elegant products.