I made this huck embroidered tea towel. Huck is a embroidered/weaving technique. The pattern is created by weaving a thread through floats on a fabric called huck or huckaback. It is a technique similar to Swedish Weaving. The embroidery is made from size 12 yellow perl thread. It is easy and I recommend it as a hobby!
Thanks for looking!
What a lovely pattern!
Very prettty.
Oh cool! I’ve woven Huck before but never thought to embroider on top of it. Did you weave the towel? Any special considerations for weaving it so you can add the embroidery? Did you do the embroidery while it was on the loom? I’m so curious 
It’s lovely!
I think my mom must have done this type of embroidery as I have a few yards of huck cloth in my stash. So you have suggestions for patterns for a beginner? I would like to try this!
Beautiful!
Thank you! I found this lady on youtube with an amazing number of huck patterns https://www.youtube.com/@linhasdeamor Unfortunately I don’t know Spanish so I’m not sure what she says on the videos. The great thing about crafting is that it can go beyond language differences!
Thank you! Huck is really easy and I would love to see it make a come back.
How pretty! I really like the stitch you used. Do you by chance have a picture that shows the whole towel or a larger portion of the stitching? I’d love to see it in all its glory!
This reminds me of a blanket that a friend made me using monks cloth. It seems to be a very similar technique.
Thanks for the link! She is actually speaking Portuguese, which I do understand, and what I don’t, like you said, just have to look at the pictures! 
Good questions! I purchased the fabric but I have thought of weaving my own. I have a double rigid heddle loom and I’ve really been wanting to play again. The lady I found on youtube https://www.youtube.com/@linhasdeamor actually uses premade towels. If I’m looking at the it right the towels are actualy made with a strip of cross stitch fabric. So you can do both surface and woven embroidery. If you look at cross stitch fabric there is a float between the holes but they are very tight. I haven’t tried doing huck work on cross stitch fabric yet or surface embroidery but the possibilities are limitless.
I hope this helps. What kind of loom do you have?
I suggest watching this lady on youtube https://www.youtube.com/@linhasdeamor Her demonstrations make it easy to learn and are beautiful. I’m glade I found her on the internet. The only suggestion is use a small tapestry needle so it is easy to go through the floats.
Thank you, it was fun to make.
I will try to get another picture of the towel. When you do this technique on monks cloth it is called Swedish Weaving. Monks cloth Is actual weaving a yarn under and over the fabric rather then through floats on the surface. This means that you have to kind of translate a huck patterns when working on monks cloth. I’ve been working on a blanket on monks cloth and I will try and get a picture.
I’ve got a… few looms 
My main loom is a 43” 12 shaft floor loom that I love!
I need to do more research on how you’re applying some of the terms as I’ve never heard of huck as an embroidery technique. I can see the underlying fabric has the huck weaving structure. I have a pretty extensive weaving library so will have to flip through some books to see what I can find.
