Farmer's Doubleweave Bread Bag

Editor's note: While this bag is written for a 4-shaft loom, the notes on spinning linen for the weft can be applied to weaving a similar project on a rigid-heddle loom using Angela Tong's Rigid-Heddle Bread Bags as a template.

I love old grain and seed bags. It is hard to believe all the work that went into them. When I hold one in my hands and think about how the thread had to be spun and woven, then cut and sewn into a grain bag, it’s just mind-blowing.

I thought it might be fun to make my own bag—not a grain bag because I have no use for such a large bag, but maybe a bread bag to store my loaf of newly baked bread. I could spin all the thread from flax roving and doubleweave a tube that requires no side seams.

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