I would like to make a scarf from an undulating twill draft from Handwoven.net:
http://www.handweaving.net/PatternDisplay.aspx?PatternID=61537
How many threads extra should I add on each side for a plain or flat twill selvedge? And where do I thread them, and then how to tie them up? and then will they just treadle with all the other threads?
I just cannot visualize how to make this work?
I have 8 shafts and 10 treadles and want to use 8/2 tencel.
I read, but don't understand, about adding selvedges on Dorothy Stewarts's blog. She quotes someone about using 12 extra threads on each side, but would that be true for all kinds of yarns? Did anyone else see this and try it and can explain it?
http://dorothystewart.blogspot.com/search?q=selvedge
"Janet uses a special selvedge threading for all of her projects. She uses 12 or 18 threads on either side of a scarf for the selvedge. If, for example, you thread at 24 ends per inch and sley 2 to a dent you would perhaps use 12 selvedge threads and thread them from the right edge, 2 in the first heddle, 1 in the second heddle and repeat for a straight draw until the 12 threads are used up. You would repeat that sequence on the left edge finishing with 2 threads in the last heddle."