How I make dining chair seat pads. 38cm x 38 cm

First find a super soft honey coloured washed bag of fleece out of my washed fleece stash, I tend to make use of warm spells in the summer to get fleece washing done and dried outside.

Warp my loom across 39 / 40 cm of pegs, leaving the warp on the 2nd and 3rd pegs and 3rd and 2nd to last warps, really long. Long enough for ties to hold the seat pad on the chair.

I like to tie my warp threads at the start, because I had the 4 longer warp threads, I matched the knot on the first of the 4 strings, from the second peg, when tying it with the strings from the first peg. I pulled the the next 2 long threads, 1 from peg 2 and one from peg 3, along side the first knot, so the main knots for the seat pad were level. The last of the long threads from peg 3 was coupled with 1 thread from peg 4 and tied off at the end of the shorter thread. Reverse these knot lengths for the end 4 long threads.

Then I draft and twist the fleece while twisting it around the pegs, back and forth. Pulling the pegs through the woven fleece when they are full. It takes me about 6 full peg heights to get a 38 cm long pad. I push the fleece down well before I tie the ends off. I don’t want the fleece to move or see any of the warp threads.

I also like to pull the first and last ties really tight, and the 2nd and 2nd to last pegs slightly more tighter than the rest. This way you get a slightly rounded edge on the corners. Most dining chairs have rounded corners.

After I had finished weaving the seat pad and had my long warps at the end, I use a flat knot to tie the long thread from the first knot to one of the longer threads from the next knot. Then use the second of those threads to tie, with a flat knot, to the long thread from the 3rd knot. I then tie a knot at the end of both pairs of long threads and trim the ends neatly.

Quick and easy to make 2 warm honey coloured hard backed chair seat pads with ties. Such a brilliant use for a natural fibre and so warm and lush to sit on.