Rosepath for Baby Wrap Weaving Pattern Download

Many handwoven wraps are woven of 8/2 cotton in plain weave with warp stripes. Susan E. Horton wove this wrap for a client who requested a twill in black, gray, and white plaid. After reviewing the samples, they chose mercerized and unmercerized 10/2 cotton in a rosepath pattern and 2/2 twill, and we decided to make the tails different from the rest of the wrap.

Structure: 4-shaft rosepath and twill

Loom Type: 4-shaft loom

Finished Dimensions: 26½" x 180" including 1" twice-folded hem at each end.

YARNS

Warp: 10/2 mercerized pearl cotton (4,200 yd/lb, UKI), black, 742 yd; charcoal, 672 yd; medium gray, 1,337 yd; silver, 1,288 yd; 10/2 unmercerized cotton (4,200 yd/lb, Lunatic Fringe), natural, 2,184 yd.

Weft: 10/2 mercerized pearl cotton, black, 603 yd; charcoal, 460 yd; medium gray, 919 yd; silver, 1,278 yd; 10/2 unmercerized cotton, natural, 1,874 yd; gray sewing thread for plain weave hems, 36 yds.

Warp Ends: 960

Warp Length: 3¼ yd. long

SETTS

Warp: 30 epi (3/dent in a 10-dent reed for the center 282 dents).

Weft: 28 ppi

Width in the Reed: 29¼"

Take-up & Shrinkage: 10% in width and 11% in length.

Project originally published in Handwoven, November/December 2013