The plastic woven rugs are used on a wide scope and are still needing of careful handling just as any other rugs. Once the warp is ready on the loom it remains only to prepare the weft so that you can start weaving. The ‘weft yarn’, which you will have purchased either on a spool or in a skein, has to be transferred to a shuttle of some kind. There are different types and sizes of shuttles when making plastic woven rug and the one used depends both on the type of loom and the design of the kitchen woven rug.
Shuttles
Stick shuttle
The instructions given for constructing a home constructed frame loom—includes the making of a stick shuttle and this can be made to any length. When making Mohawk home Asian woven rug ideally a shuttle should be at least four inches longer than the width of the weaving. Stick shuttles are used when the shed opening is narrow — such as on frame looms.
To fill a stick shuttle, the wool for the Mohawk home Asian woven rug collection coconut is wound around one prong and then around the whole shuttle. It should not be overfilled or it will not pass easily through the shed.
Long rug shuttle
The long rug weaving shuttle is used when the Mohawk home keytex woven rug chocolate is to be woven in a plain color in broad stripes extending the full width of the warp. This shuttle is thirty-four inches long and is wide enough to take a generous amount of wool, leaving the pointed end free to slide easily through the warp. The wool is wound across the open end, around the inner prong, returning down the same side.
Small shuttle
This type of shuttle is used when a number of different colors are being used in weaving. The shuttles can be left hanging without becoming unwound and is a convenient size for weaving small blocks of color on oriental hand woven rugs. The pointed end of the shuttle is designed for beating down the weft.
When making hand woven area rugs the wool is wound on the small shuttle as follows: with the wool on the right-hand side of the shuttle hanging point down, place the first finger of the right hand behind the wool, twist the finger downwards over it, picking up a loop and slip this off the finger over the shuttle. Continue in this way until the shuttle is full; the wool will unwind freely as required to make beautiful country woven rugs.
Finger hank:
On frame looms particularly, a finger hank can be used instead of a shuttle. This is made by winding the wool on the hand in a figure eight. They unwind easily from the centre. Finger hanks are sometimes used in making pile hand plastic woven rugs as they are flexible and easy to work around a pile gauge.