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How to join different threadings smoothly when threading a warp?
I’m weaving a sampler with different twill threadings and I wondered how to connect them ?
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Depends on the weave structure. If it is twill, for example, extending the twill line until it meets up with the next one usually works well. Crackle has a specific approach to changing from one block to another. Some need to have the repeats go in a specific rotation. Twills and Twill Variation by, um, Lucille Landis (I think) has a really good explanation of what that is and how it applies to other weave structures.
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In a four shaft twill gamp, I usually add one or more repeats of straight draw between twill threadings that head in the same direction (uphill or downhill, so to speak?). If they go in different directions, you could use point or broken twill or a wee bit of dornik, since all of those also change directions and therefore will link up to the twills on either side well.
I do the same thing weftwise, and in both cases I usually make those dividing lines a different colour.
In an 8S twill gamp, on the other hand, I usually just run one twill straight into the next without any divisions, either in threading or color, since 8S twills often have motifs that extend outside the lines – and the segue from one threading to the next is often just as interesting as the threadings themselves.
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