Saturday, October 22, 2011

Notes on Weave structures on the Warp weighted loom

I've been looking up weaving something other than plain weave on the warp weighted loom. I finally got a chance to go through some notes I'd downloaded and printed out from http://www.illuminatedspaces.com. They answer a lot of questions I'd had.

The natural shed counts as #1 on the shaft count of any weaving draft.

Apparently, once the heddles are threaded, I can do any twill pattern, except point and diamond (which use a mirror threading), it just depends on the number sequence I use for the pattern.

Now I just need to figure out what would have been used for numbers so I can make a pattern chart.

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