Revisiting the Norwegian Textile Letter Volume 1, No. 2, January 1995

This short article featured a weaving draft, for krokbragd including both single and double points.  

For The Loom

Many of our members expressed interest in receiving drafts or weaving information that they can translate to their looms. From time to time we will include drafts. 

Combination Krokbragd. In this threading, traditional single and double krokbragd appear in the same draft. The woven piece appears to have a compressed border with a more exaggerated pattern area in the center. When using more than two colors for a motif the appearance becomes quite linear. Any of the motifs found on page 23 and 24 of Akleboka by Gauslaa and Astby can be threaded for both single and double krokbragd with pleasing results. I have not tried to expand the single motif examples on earlier pages of this book. 

This is a cryptic excerpt without access to the Norwegian book, and with no photos. Happily, Jan Mostrom has woven a combination krokbragd that illustrates this draft nicely. The draft above can be adjusted, depending on the width of the piece, and how many single points you would like at each edge. 

For this piece, Jan Mostrom used 12/9 swine twine @ 7.5 ends /inch, with a 15 dent reed sleyed every other dent. The weft was 6/2 Rauma prydvev.

Here’s a detail from the right-hand edge. You can see the shift from double-points to single points clearly. 

And because some weavers like to see the reverse side–here’s the BACK of the krokbragd. 

Thanks to Patty Johnson for reproducing the draft so it is legible, and thanks to Jan Mostrom for such a beautiful piece to illustrate the technique.