Tue, 07/09/2013 - 16:21

Fiddler2 (not verified)

I would like to weave my Tartan at some point as well. Good Luck, let us all know how it goes!

Fri, 08/02/2013 - 14:47

horsofcors (not verified)

I cant get this draft out of my mind. Unfortunately i dont have a 16 shaft loom. How would i change it to 8 if at all possible. I have iweave it and wif n proof. Will these do it for me. If so how. Thanks. Have new babies in the family and would love to weave this. Hugs. Diane
Sun, 09/01/2013 - 20:16

Bonnie Inouye (not verified)

In the image I see after clicking on this draft, the first and last treadles are tied to shafts 1 + 4. It is highly unusual to tie two treadles the same instead of using the first one again as needed. And it will slow the weaving because there are many places in this draft with the same shed repeated- you have to go around a floating selvage to keep the weft from coming out. Are you sure that you did not intend to have one of these treadles lifting just one shaft, or one lifting shaft 1 and the other lifting 4?

Bonnie

Thu, 09/05/2013 - 21:22

Bonnie Inouye (not verified)

You do not always need floating selvages with twills. They do slow the weaving. Most professional weavers do not use them. I had to add them once, about 3 years ago, when I switched to honeycomb on a warp that also worked for other structures. I have been weaving since 1967 and cannot remember another time when I had to add floaters.

The places in the draft where you use treadle 4 followed by treadle 1, or 1 and then 4, will look different from the rest of the cloth because these two picks are identical. If you used a thicker weft there, instead of the same weft twice, you can imagine how this would make a horizontal line across the cloth each time. Perhaps this is part of the look that you want?

It is so much fun to make new drafts!

Float length is easy to check with weaving software. I always consider floats in relation to the epi and ppi of the cloth.

Bonnie Inouye       www.bonnieinouye.com

Wed, 09/11/2013 - 03:19

Bonnie Inouye (not verified)

Thanks, Kerstin! I was not able to respond for a few days- moving from Colorado to Maryland, then driving 3 hours south for a special birthday party (twin grandchildren turned 4), etc.

Yes, float length is really about the actual length.

With some of my currently favorite weave structures, I have more warps per inch than wefts per inch. A 5-thread weft float is not very long when measured because it crosses 5 threads that are close together. I am currently using 48 epi on the loom that has a warp now, so that is 5/48 of an inch. But I might avoid 5-thread floats in the warp because a warp float passes over 5 picks which cover more space.

Sometimes you can control the floats at the edges of a twill by paying attention to the direction of the shuttle: start on the other side and see if that helps. With a 4-shaft twill, straight treadling, you can make it work. With other twill variations, add a little basket weave to the edges. This has been discussed on Weavo several times.

Bonnie

Sat, 11/09/2013 - 22:58

SallyE (not verified)

Obviously, with 24 shafts, this was done on a dobby.   What kind did you use?   I really like the pattern.  Thank you for sharing the draft!

 

Sun, 12/01/2013 - 22:57

cottageweaver (not verified)

Very nicely done!  Thanks for sharing the .wif.  I can't seem to open it in WeaveItPro, though.

Thu, 01/16/2014 - 17:49

MtnMicky (not verified)

Would it be possible to buy this book? Thank you, Diana
Fri, 01/24/2014 - 23:02

Bonnie Inouye (not verified)

If you have this threading on an 8-shaft loom, you can weave it using an 8-shaft twill tie-up. Then it would really be an 8-shaft herringbone instead of a 4-shaft (2/2 tie-up) cloth woven on an 8-shaft loom. This kind of twill has lots of names besides herringbone.

Bonnie Inouye

Wed, 02/05/2014 - 00:25

mrdubyah (not verified)

Here it is interpreted as a profile draft, threaded as 2/2 twill, and treadled as Ms & Ws.  Profile,2/2,MW.jpg