You’ll need some distance to make those dinnerplate-sized circles appear. Or just squint a little. 8/4 cotton warp & weft at 15 epi and ppi.
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Alice Schlein
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This draft for 16 shafts combines a 4×6 initial (rosepath or extended point twill) on a straight pattern line, with amalgamation of the resulting threading. Tromp as writ. The maximum float is 5. This draft would be very weavable, with much textural variety in the various blocks. Restrict the length of the floats in the tieup to 2. Wrapping or rotating the tieup will give many interesting variations.
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When plotting your pattern lines on a network, whether for warp or weft, you needn’t be limited to straight lines, such as 1-2-3-4. Why not try initials such as point twills, rosepath, etc. In fact, any combinations that work together as warp/weft combinations on a given number of shafts will work as initials in a weave draft.
The following weave sampler of 4 different 4-shaft threadings, when combined with their associated treadlings (in other words, tromped as writ) shows that any two of these initials will work together.
Therefore, in the following diagram, any of the initials in the first row will work in a threading draft with any of the initials in the second row for a treadling draft:
In subsequent posts I will give examples of the process with actual 8 and 16 shaft drafts. Stay tuned!
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Liftplan created with a simple curved line which was then networked with a rosepath-type initial. It required a bit of cleaning up, but here’s the result.
Here’s some Muhly grass from a few years ago.
And. in the Department of Books, I just finished reading Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami
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