All of our 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 we 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 our most compicated cane to date - the only one we've ever had to sketch out beforehand. We 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? We've written up a tutorial for making a Weave in the Biscotti color scheme.

This pattern was first developed in 2004