Going from 4 shafts to 2

June 5th 2011 in Drafts, Projects

In (Almost) Infinite Variations, I took a threading and changed the treadling in various ways. Eventually I devised a “tabby” treadling of it. Recently it occurred to me that the four shaft pattern could be reduced to two. I really liked one part of the pattern in particular — it had very nice curves, so I thought to try it. In making it, I collapsed the 4 shaft design by mapping shafts as follow:

Shaft on 4 Shaft Design	Mapped to
1	1
2	2
3	1
4	2

Here’s what it looks like in Weave Design (WIF):

I got out my tapestry loom and started weaving it to see how it would look. Not quite done yet, but I expect it should make a nice mug rug.

On the tapestry loom

Neck Cloth aka Cravat WIP

I was looking the other day for cravat patterns — Father’s Day is, after all, two weeks away. What better than a quasi-tie for the Neo-Victorian Father? To that end, I found several ideas, but then remembered about the Mitered-Loop Keyhole Scarf after seeing some period cravats were basically pointed long strips of cloth. Digging […]

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Historic 3 Shaft Lozenge

This pattern is based on an example on p. 150 of Ancient Danish Textiles from Bogs and Burials, by Margrethe Hald. [openbook booknumber="OLID:OL3096673M" templatenumber="1"]

It has been translated from 4 shafts to 3, resulting in a 2/1 broken twill as opposed to the original 2/2.

Why 3 shaft? 3 shafts are still easily accomplished on a rigid heddle […]

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