Patching a rip in the knee of pants.

Still working on getting the end result square and with straight edges, but I like it.

it's so tidy, and the pattern of it looks so good! 🤩🙌

Thanks! Laying out the edges really helped.

A speed weave loom? Never heard of that before. Looks cool, though!

What is the role of the fat white yarn?

Also how does it stitch into the fabric?

This looks awesome.

The white yarn is just drawing a border so I know where to put the anchoring stitches. At the bottom end, opposite the hooks, the wrap is anchored with stitches, meaning it goes into and out of the cloth I'm patching once before turning back for the next row. And at both sides at the end of each row the weft is anchored with a stitch too.

Thanks!

I got mine from Alexonver.

I haven't found a really authoritative history, but this site among others recounts:

Back in the 1940s during WWII, cloth was rationed as everything was needed for the war effort. People became very adept and inventive at ‘making do and mending’.

A Lancashire company – E&A Chesstok – produced a whole load of tiny looms called “SpeedWeve”. They were even known as “Lancashire’s Smallest Loom” or the “Lancashire Speedweve”, and came with a little set of darning loom instructions.