![]() Huck toweling used to come about 14″ wide, but these days, it’s more common to find 15″ or 17″ wide huck toweling. It’s absorbent and very low lint, making it excellent for toweling, so in various industries, you’ll actually find inexpensive towels made of huck fabric. Today, huck fabric is still pretty common stuff, and it’s normally fairly inexpensive. ![]() The floats provide a nice little pattern in the weave and they make it very easy to pass a decorative thread under the floats to adorn the fabric. In this manner, the threads crossing in front “float” above the threads behind. Huck fabric is a cotton toweling fabric that features “floats” in the weave – or threads that cross in front of other threads in the fabric without locking into those other threads. It was inexpensive way to decorate toweling, after all. Huck weaving – which is also known as Huck embroidery, Huckaback darning, Swedish weaving, and other names depending on which country you hail from – is a fairly simple surface darning technique that produces geometric and linear designs on a particular type of fabric, called huck fabric.Īlthough different forms of huck weaving (and decorative darning) stretch back pretty far into textile history, the huck weaving we know today was mostly popular in the US during the 1930’s-40’s. Huck weaving also came up in our Needle ‘n Thread group over on Facebook not too long ago, too, so I thought I’d touch on the topic here, mention some resources, and direct you to the free pattern that you’ll see on Julie’s towel. So I passed them off to her – and guess what came back to me last weekend? A finished towel! We foraged about in my Bin of Sundry Collected Needlework Goods, and came across a couple Huck weaving (also called Swedish weaving, among other names) towel kits. ![]() Last year, as winter was setting in, my niece Julie accosted me, looking for some needlework to do that wasn’t difficult, that worked up easily and quickly, and that would give her something creative to do with her hands during the evening hours. ![]()
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