Try Something New: Turned Taqueté

• Intro to Turned Taqueté
• Color in Turned Taqueté
• Turned Taqueté Projects
  • 1. Four shafts
  • 2. Eight shafts
  • 3. Sixteen shafts

You may be familiar with taqueté, a weft-faced structure that’s usually used for sturdy pieces such as rugs. Taqueté is threaded like summer and winter and it requires two shuttles because, again like summer and winter, it’s woven with alternating wefts.

But have you heard of turned taqueté, aka jin, aka warp-faced compound tabby? Those are all names for the same versatile structure—a single-shuttle weave that produces drapey, reversible fabric with saturated colors. Read on for the details!

Intro to Turned Taqueté

Turned taqueté is a warp-faced structure that is the result of turning a regular taqueté draft 90 degrees—the original warp and threading become