Deflected warps and wefts : a Creative Crafts folio by Creative Crafts School of Weaving

Author:Creative Crafts School of Weaving
Language: eng
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Tags: Hand weaving
Publisher: [s.l. : s.n.

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Trs. 123ab 123ab Sley threads in brackets together.

Figure 3 . Deflected Wefts

In deflected wefts the warps act as loops to catch and hold heavy wefts out of place, and the wefts form an overlay of design. In deflected warps the wefts remain fairly constant and horizontal, holding down the deflected loops where desired. Compare the two techniques by referring to Figures 1 43,

The threading is also somewhat similar to the Summer and Winter Weave where the pattern harnesses are H.3 and H.4. In Summer and Winter these pattern harnesses occur on every other note, and produce an alternate plain weave against the regular background tabby which is on Hs.l and 2, whereas in a deflected weft threading they occur only at intervals. When they are treadled,therefor, as Hs. 3 & 4 together, a pair of warps is left outstanding, and cem be treated as a loop to catch the heavy design threads at this point.

DEFLECTED WARPS AND WEFTS

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However, you will note that the weaving is much the sane as in Sumner and Winter, with each of the tabby harnesses used with the design threads,- nanely: Hs.l & 3; 2 * 3; 1 * 4; 2*4, etc. On a Jack loom, if one weave Hs.1-3, 2-3, etc., the alternate warps on H.4 fall to the lower shed, below the cloth; and only the heavy pairs on H.3 rise to catch the wefts. When one weaves the IIs.1-4 and Hs.2-4, the heavy warps on H.3 are held below the surfaice, and only the warps on H.4 catch the deflected wefts. We therefor get a zig-zag alternation, as ., shown in Figure 3, and this is called hf the French word, "Cannele* Altera*',."

THREADING FLAN

Harnesses 1 and 2 are threaded for pl4iii' weave and narked (x). Hs.3 and 4 are threaded for the accenting warps to be used tot. holding deflected wefts, and are marked.(IS. Keep repeating pattern as given. Finish with a section of plain weave on Hs.l & 2c

Sley plain' weave warps 2 per dent. Be sure to always sley an accent warp with an adjacent plain weave warp, see brackets,-Figure 3. For closer sleying, put 2 plain ifeave warps plus aa accent warp through the sane dent.

WEAVING PLAN:

1st Block: Plain Weave, weave with the regular tabby thread: Hs. 1-3; 2-3 (Trs. a then 1) Repeat as desired. End with Hs.1-3 (Tr.a)

Accenting Row: Weave with deflected weft thread: Hs.3-4 (Tr.3)

2nd Block: Plain Weave, regular tabby: Hs.2-4r; 1^. ITrs.b then 2) Repeat as desired. End with Hs.2-4 (Tr.b)

Accenting Row: deflected weft thread: Hs. 3-4 (Tr.3)

Repeat 1st and 2nd blocks as desired. End with plain weave of next block after the last one used.

The stitch is fun; the results rewarding. One does not need to equalize the blocks, but can repeat more or less of the plain weave treadling. One can also interrupt the alternation of the blocks by repeating Bl. 1 or Bl.2 more times, which results in horizontal lines instead of wavey ones. One can also, weavp as follows:

Tr. a; 1; b; 2; repeat as desired.

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