Thursday, May 19, 2011

Pattern Drafting Continued

Here is the rest of that sample swatch:

The top rows are an attempt to to raise heddle 1&2, 2&3, 3&1 with white weft, but it didn't work very well because the heddle tie-ups kept velcroing themselves to the warp threads.

The next row down is heddle 1,2,3,1,2,3 with brown weft.

The next row down is heddle 1,2,3,1,2,3 with alternating brown and white weft - white weft when a brown warp is raised, brown weft when a white warp is raised.)

The next section down is the same heddle sequence, but white weft with white warp raised, brown weft with brown warp raised.

The next section is the same as the top, before the warp got so fuzzed that I couldn't work it.

The next section is raised 1,2,3,2,1,2,3,2 etc. alternating brown weft under brown warp and white weft under white warp.

The bottom row pictured was the last one I worked before the previous posting, I believe, which was raised in this order: heddle 1,2,3,2,1,2,3 etc. with brown weft only.

This was lots of fun - now I need to string up my loom for a *real* project!!

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