Hi all,
I'm thinking of doing an overshot weaving next. But I'd rather not have to change shuttles every pick, so I'm wondering. . . . . If I turn the draft, i.e., thread the pattern on shafts 1 - 4, and then add background on shafts 5 and 6, every other thread (like the tabby), I should be able to just use the background color for the weft and not keep changing shuttles every pick.
But what I'm wondering about is the sett. Usually on an overshot, the background color is a finer weight yarn than the pattern yarn, and you can square the design by controlling how hard you beat, but if you do the threading the way I'm thinking, won't it be more difficult to square the design? So if I, for example, used 20/2 for the background and 10/2 for the pattern, what sett do I use? Do I thread the sett for something in between what I would use for each yarn - split the difference?
Thanks in advance!