Take a Deep Dive into Huck Lace

Are you drawn to the stylish and elegant look of woven lace—but have simply never gotten around to it?

Did you make Susan Du Bois’s and Robin Wilton’s Sugar Plum Lace scarf from the Spring 2025 issue of Handwoven, and now feel eager to try other types of lace?

Or do you already know that you love weaving huck? And you’re starting to feel the itch to get some more on the loom?

If any of those sound familiar, we’ve got a can’t-miss eBook for you. The Best of Handwoven: Huck Lace Technique Series includes a baker‘s dozen of projects using huck lace (and a few close cousins) on four to eight shafts.

Madelyn van der Hoogt kicks things off with an overview of different types of lace. Then she moves on to the nuts and bolts of designing your own huck lace. Later, you’ll find an overview of yarns for weaving huck lace, plus tips for planning, hemstitching, and fringing your work.

On to the Projects!

Shown at top, Helen Irwin’s Fourth of July napkins alternate lace checkerboard-fashion in a six-shaft draft, while a four-shaft version drops those blocks of lace in every square. Either one would fit right in at your holiday celebration.

Other projects included in this book:
• Rita Hagenbuch‘s Wool and Lace Poncho, which sets blocks of lace in a plaid grid.
• Karen Tenney‘s Bath Set, woven in waffle weave on a huck threading.
• Tom Kinsely and Lynette Beam‘s Soy Silk Scarf has a soft and drapable hand.
• Kristen Kelley‘s Huck Lace and Tencel scarf (pictured below) alternates columns of huck and plain weave.

• Barbara Walker‘s Spot-Weave Scarf is woven in sock yarn. This structure isn’t exactly huck—but it’s a kind of cousin, and you’ll definitely notice the resemblance.
• Win Shaw‘s Plaid Huck-Lace Table Runner is woven in shades of blue with accents of red.
• Bryn Pinchin‘s Country Tablecloth looks like a traditional checked tablecloth—until you take a closer look and see the blocks of huck.
• Connie La Lena‘s Country Curtains have blocks of huck floating in squares of tan and unbleached cottolin.
• Lynn Tedder‘s Sampler includes five different lacy patterns.
• Laurie Autio‘s Huck-Lace Tea Cloth uses a five-block pattern to produce circles, ovals, and floral shapes.
• Kate Lange-McKibben‘s Bamboo Huck-Lace Shawl is woven in three colors for exciting color interactions.
• Dagmar Klos‘s Silk Huck-Lace Scarf has a delicious sheen that shows off that silk.

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Check out the projects in Best of Handwoven: Huck Lace Technique Series