Clockwise from above left:

With 1,875 ends to thread up on the loom, the set up alone can take four days; the pattern is set by the placement of pegs in the lags, each peg denoting the shaft to be lifted and each lag the pick or row to weave – Rhian can also design the pattern by computer software, which when linked up to the loom will drive the shaft selection, but this does not detract from the handweaving process; a wound bobbin is placed in the shuttle ready to be thrown through the warp; Rhian weaves with a flying shuttle mechanism; each piece of yarn is beaten into the design to keep the weave tight; any thread ends are cut off and darned

Clockwise from above left: Once washed, the throws are carefully hooked on to the tenter frame in order to prevent them shrinking and maintain their shape while they dry; Rhian sources the yarn for her handwoven throws from a mill in Yorkshire; ‘I get so inspired looking at the palette of colours in the sample book from the mill – and thinking about where I have seen the various colour combinations in the countryside,’ says Rhian; ‘every throw I weave is slightly different – customers can commission different colour combinations or proportions’