Most of my patterns start with three somewhat dark base colors and a fourth color which is used to lighten and brighten the other three. This fourth color is usually White, but I sometimes also use Tan, Yellow or Gray for other interesting effects. The finished product is called a "cane" and can be compared to a roll of slice-and-bake cookie dough where the pattern is visible in any cross-section.

The WEAVE cane is my most complicated cane to date - the only one I've ever had to sketch out beforehand. I make complex ribbons out of a gradation of each base color to the lighter color, and arrange them to look woven. The woven block is reduced and recombined to make a complex square cane that looks like the side of a multi-colored basket.

Want to know more? I've written up a tutorial for making a Weave in the Biscotti color scheme.

This pattern was first developed in 2004

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