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Ellen (not verified)

That is a beautiful piece of weaving. And a very smart way of solving the edge issue. Congratulations! :-)

jordanj (not verified)

Great choice of colors and plaid design. May I ask what yarn you used and if you are satisfied with the texture/drape?

 

 

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Notes

 I wove this for a friend who picked the colors.  It is a straight draw twill on 16 shafts which necessitates some kind of selvedge tweaking.  I needed to prevent the long floats on the selvedges that you get with straight draw twill on 16 shafts.  I wanted to use my fly shuttle so a floating selvedge wouldn't  work.  So I borrowed 4 shafts to weave a basket weave edging.  Basket weave is preferable for an edging on twill because one can beat the twill correctly without getting the ruffle-y edge that one might get plain weave.  But oops - no floating selvedge so my 2-pick-per-shed basket weave edge needs tweaking.  So I borrow 2 more shafts from my 16-shaft (now 12-shaft) twill to add just two ends of plain weave on each selvedge - 2 ends won't cause the edge to ripple.  It worked.

Number of Shafts
16
Project Status
Finished
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