When Waves Collide weaving notes - Theo Wright : Handwoven

The network I am using is based on a 1/3 twill. Picture. On a 16-shift loom this network means that warp end 1 must be on shaft ... KeepintouchonFacebookorTwitterorsignuptomynewsletter Home News TEXTILEART NoColourNoContrast > NCNCColour NCNCThreadings NCNCDesign NCNCSampling NCNCFinal OutofSynch > OutofSynchcollection OutofSynchdesignnotes WhenWavesCollide > Wavescollection Wavesdesignnotes Wavesweavingnotes Permutations SCARVES Expressionwraps(silk) BeautifulFriendscarves(silk) Fernscarves(silk) Gatsby2scarves(silk) Solarscarves(linen) Lightshowscarves(linen) Fractionscarves(linen) BrokenEnglishscarves(linen) Footprintscarves(lambswool) Relayscarves(lambswool) Ripplescarves(lambswool) Morelambswoolscarves HowtoOrder About Links PrivacyPolicy Contact WhenWavesCollideweavingnotes TheWhenWavesCollidecollectioniswovenin10/2mercerisedcottonbyLunaticFringe(availableintheUKfromTheHandweaversStudio).Iweaveusinga16-shaftLouëtMegadofloorloomwithamechanicaldobby. Theweavingtechniqueusedforthiscollectionisaninterleavednetworkdraftingtechniquethatallowstwocurvestoberepresentedwithinasinglelayerofcloth. Thetechnique,referredtoasMoiré,isdescribedbyMarianStubenitskyinherbookWeavingwithEchoandIris.Thefollowingnotesgiveabasicideaofthetechniquebutarenotintendedtobeatutorial.NetworkdraftingTogettogripswiththetechniqueyoufirstneedtounderstandthesimplernetworkdraftingtechniqueusedtorepresentasinglecurve,orindeedanyotherline. Thecurveisdrawnontoagrid.Iamusing16shafts,soI’mmakinglifeeasybyusingagridsixteensquareshigh. Ratherthanusingthisdirectlyasthethreadingsequenceforthewarp,thecurveisthenmappedontoanetwork.ThenetworkIamusingisbasedona1/3twill. Ona16-shiftloomthisnetworkmeansthatwarpend1mustbeonshaft1,5,9or13warpend2onshaft2,6,10or14warpend3onshaft3,7,11or15warpend4onshaft4,8,12or16warpend5onshaft1,5,9or13… Sotheresultingthreadingsequencewouldlooklikethis: MoiréThistechniqueusesthesameideabutwithtwocurvesontwonetworks Thesecondcurveisalsomappedontoanetwork,butthisnetworkisoffsetfromthepreviousone(thisensuresthatyounevergettwoadjacentwarpendsonthesameshaft).Here,warpend1mustbeonshaft3,7,11or15. Asecondcurveisdrawn... ...andmappedontothissecondnetwork Thetwomappedcurvesaretheninterleavedtocreatethethreadingsequenceforthewarp. Thesamesequenceisusedfortheorderofliftsduringweaving,withthe16rowsofthedobbysetasshownbelow. Myintentioninthisprojectistoshowsomeofthedifferentpossibleinteractionsbetweentwosinewaves,soIhaveusedthesamenetworkdraftingapproachthroughout.Therearelotsofothervariationstobeexplored,havealookatabooksuchasMarianStubenitsky'sandgetinspired. BacktothemainWhenWavesCollidepage Copyright ©TheoWright.Allrightsreserved.