I didn't have a measuring tape, but each (tabby) square is approximately 1 1/2 centimetre.
Also, I did not look ar the back - I just assumed it would be totally reversible.
Started to count threads, from the photo. There are 30 ends in each tabby square, and the patterned squares are "different" - there is a slight warp emphasis on the vertical striped part, but the horizontally striped part does not have the same structure.
Try as I might, I could not get the analysis right, or at least could not make a reversible structure.
I settled on a compromize:
To get 30 ends per tabby square I had to skip one end per block.
As it is so much easier to have a "continuous" threading/treadling, I constructed a variant, with 32 ends per tabby square (or 16 ends per block).
The patterned squares are now a variant of the "rackel" weave described on this guild page, combined with tabby - and I think it still gives the same overall impression (as the original piece of cloth)
Don't have 16 shafts? I played with 8:
With cotton 16/2 sett at (say) 12 epcm, each square will be a generous centimetre square, after wet finishing...:
8 comments:
This looks like a fun weave structure suitable for towels and such. :)
Cheers
Laura
Yes, looks great in real life :-)
(Next time, I'll bring a magnifier, a measuring tape and graph paper - maybe I will be able to make a "correct" analysis)
Kerstin (reading more about the DFW "inventor" aka "con man"...)
Kerstin, Is there any reason you didn't think of using 3 shaft lace blocks to produce a similar fabric?
Yes, there is: "didn't think about it".
Feel free to do it yourself!
Have fun -
Kerstin
Okay...I think I will! Just took a workshop on 3 shaft weaves with JoAnn Bachelder and my head is swimming in ideas.
I'll let you know when/if I do play with the draft and weave it...
This is a very interesting structure. I intend to play with the draft a little and then use it for my next set of towels.
Thanks! Erik
I did play with the draft and came up with a 12 shaft version. It's at my blog
here
I was fascinated by your links to rackel weave. Thanks!
Valerie, what a nice sample! Isn't it fun, the way we can "diverge" (is that a word? if not, I suppose "get inspired by, and then going in different directions" will have to do...). Hmmm - I'm not much of rug weaver, but maybe the idea could make an interesting rug pattern, too?
Re: rackel: all of us had heard of it, as sort of a curiosity - we were all surprised to find it *everywhere*, once we started looking. (Different name everywhere, but the structure was the same)
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