How it's done

I create these rugs with the help of Allgauer weaving loom (Allgauer Webrahmen).

I firstly warp the loom vertically with a low stretch yarn (mixture of cotton and polyester or linen work well). This is how I warp the loom:

In this other weaving, for example, I pull the shuttles with yarns of different colors under and over the vertical threads to create the diamond pattern below.

I beat down the weaving with a comb.

The rotating heddle bar helps to raise every other vertical thread.

Materials for the small weaving frame

As a weft, i.e. the visible horizontal thread, I typically use cotton. Cotton does not stretch and is an ideal material for beginners. For larger placemats I use fine cotton, for smaller mug rugs I use thicker cotton or a mix of cotton and linen. Most recently, I have been experimenting with pure linen for the mug rugs.

Combed fine cotton	Lang Yarns, grown in Turkey, Peru or USA, processed in Italy
Thick cotton	Samba, processed in Serbia
Cotton 80% Linen 20%	Grundl, grown in Turkey or Macedonia, processed in Germany
Linen	Schoppel, grown in France, processed in Italy and Germany

My weaving arsenal

At the moment, I own three Allgauer weaving looms of different sizes with a heddle bar and one small weaving loom without a heddle bar.

For fringeless weaving, I currently use Schacht's mini loom..