Weaving on the loom

The Weave Draft

A system to a system, it is the roadmap to the weave structure.

Twill weave: Threading draft

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4 harness loom

Treadle

1,1,2 raises

2,2,3 raises

3,3,4 raises

4,4.1 raises

4*4 Twill

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Draw down of a graphic representation of the cloth

gray – warp

white – weft

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Note: 5th treadle you return

The Tabby/ plain weave

Warp – through the loom (white)

Weft – shuttle (gray)

Log Cabin,

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Basket weave

3D elements through color

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Different types of weaves

Overshot

Satin weave

Plain Weave: 1 under, 2 over, 1 under, 2 over set of pattern

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Textile Reinforced Structural Composites for Advanced Applications

Herring Bone weave

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Zig-zag and Herringbone Twill Weave

Diamond Twill

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https://textilestudycenter.com/diamond-design/

Raddles

Raddles are used to prevent the warp from tangling when it is wound on the beam.

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Weaving: Warp and the Weft!

The Warp is a set of treads

The Weft is a set of threads that interlace

See: Weave Structures nu Irene Emmery

The Primary Structures of Fabrics

Irene Emery, Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)

Textile Museum, 1966 – Textile fabrics – 339 pages

The descriptive classification of fabric structures presented here is based on a long and wide-ranging study of representative fabrics from ancient and primitive cultures, and of the methods and terminology employed in analyzing, describing, and classifying them. After a number of years of collecting and attempting to collate available data, the bewildering inconsistencies and incongruities encountered in museum records and labels, and in published descriptions and discussions, led me to undertake a detailed and systematic investigation of the essential characteristics of ancient and primitive fabrics and the problems involved in acquiring, recording, and transmitting information about them. – Foreword.

Beginner’s Guide to Weaving | The Weaving Loom

https://www.theweavingloom.com/beginners-guide-to-weaving/

Weaving: The warp thread is the thread that is strung over the loom vertically, and holds the tension while you weave. This is the backbone of your weave. The weft thread is the thread that you weave between (from left to right) around, and all over the warp threads. It creates your patterns and design in the weave.

Each pass is a weft thick!

Load F – > B or B-> F(reference)

The thread goes through the Heddle

There are eight shafts on the loom together you call the harness. if you have more shafts it becomes more complex.

S8, S7, S6, S5 pattern being established

Weave when plane cloth = even weft to loom, you have to beat down, a cloth is formed. Hold thread in a half upper moon.

Tie it to front and back beam

To create a cloth which is under tension; different solutions per culture, on how to keep the cloth under tension.

Feet down, loom steady, Head rises

Shred: some threads come up and some down, they create the interlacement

The flying shuttle propels across the open shed.

There are also automated looms.

Jacquard loom: China, Select individual work thread to lift, creates the intricate design.

Flying Loom, more complex cloth, faster than ever before

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The Language of Cloth

Work intuitively, mathematical order freeform, improvisation.
Understanding origin, chains, modes of production. OPens eyes to nature and ancestor connection, rituals and ideas.
Colonialism and oppression ways to history books
Textiles are overloaded with coded messages & secret languages.

Robin Canc