Category: twill angle
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A Thread Runs Through It
I am not averse to taking inspiration from others and have a library of resources to draw from. That doesn’t mean I can’t or don’t come up with something out of my own brain, just that sometimes it is faster to thumb through a book or something until I find something that looks pleasing to…
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The Best Part
I enjoy weaving on multiple levels. I enjoy the physical activity of sitting at the loom, throwing the shuttle, beating the weft into place. But I also find the intellectual work of trying to figure out how to make the threads move through the fabric stimulating. So when I’m at the loom and things are…
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Precision
photo showing a red and beige fabric that represents plain weave as the design Weaving is the kind of craft where on the one hand there is a great deal of precision, and on the other, not so much. We can, with some effort, be quite precise in our math, in our physical skills, in…
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Interlacements/Angle
Someone asked about interlacements and how one would go about changing that ratio. I managed to get one towel woven yesterday with the finer green linen. The camera has washed out the colours a bit, it actually looks more interesting than this, but the point of the photo is the twill angle. If the linen…
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Physics
1:3 twills will curl draft shows the path of the weft and warp It is a fact that – like stockinette stitch in knitting – a 1:3 twill fabric will curl at the edges. There is really nothing that can be done to prevent this. Not a floating selvedge or temples. It will curl. A…
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Physics
1:3 twills will curl draft shows the path of the weft and warp It is a fact that – like stockinette stitch in knitting – a 1:3 twill fabric will curl at the edges. There is really nothing that can be done to prevent this. Not a floating selvedge or temples. It will curl. A…
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Tricky Twills
Most weavers have experienced the phenomenon of having the outside ends of their warp ‘fall out’ of the cloth when they reverse the direction of a twill. It is the reason so many weavers recommend that a floating selvedge be used for twills. Since I don’t like using floating selvedges, I try to find work…
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Stars and Roses
It is a source of continual amazement to me how things interconnect in weaving. One of the things that students study in level two of the Olds program is overshot and one aspect of that weave structure is how the central motif of so many overshot designs are called ‘stars’. More fascinatingly, how ‘stars’ can…
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All About the Twills
This weekend the local guild is having a workshop on twills. I really love designing with twills. You can keep it simple, ramp it up, make it over the top complex. Yes, even with ‘just’ four shafts. The design we call Swedish Snowflake here in North America was originally made popular by Margaret Atwater. But…
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Gearing Up
The new year has officially begun and it is time to gear up and start getting ready for the upcoming crop of deadlines/events! Looking at Twills Workshop with Laura Fry ~ April 7th & 8th This round robin workshop (weavers will move from loom to loom to try the different threadings/warps) will take a close…