Category: General Weaving
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Digitizing Threadings
To “digitize” is to convert something which starts out as continuous data into packets of discrete information, like converting a photograph into a digital file. Threadings are already in digital form – one square equals one shaft or block. So “digitizing” a threading refers to reducing the number of shafts by combining some of them…
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Parallels and Networks
I noticed an interesting relationship between parallel and network twill threadings a while ago – a parallel repeat is equivalent to redrawing a design line, profile design, or threading on a network with a doubled initial. To see this relationship, start with a design line or profile design. Here I’ve used a namedraft, generated by…
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Fun with twill tie-ups
We’re used to creating twill tie-ups by choosing some shafts to tie-up in regular intervals on our first treadle, then stepping up or down by one to continue the tie-ups in a diagonal line for the subsequent shafts. This works well when our intervals fit neatly into the number of shafts. But if we are…
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Welcome!
I love to talk weaving. I also love to explore structure and colour, and how the two combine to create magical results. Along the way I have made many discoveries – some large, some small, some novel, some reinventions. Put all that together and it means that I love to talk about and share what…