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  Pine Cone Weave????

  Posted by Michael Harkness on May 3, 2023 at 12:26 pm

  Hi,

  I’m always looking for something different and unusual to weave. I was intrigued with Janet’s Unduly Namedrafts. I was a little confused with the details of how so until she generously imparts the knowledge upon us, I went looking elsewhere as usual. I found an article in the docs area of Handweaving.net (I think you need a membership to get into them). It was from an early 1930’s issue of The Weaver magazine. The towels they made used a weave structure called PineCone. It seems to be an overshot. The article used it mainly as a border that looked really good. Buuuuuuut, the gave a single threading but no treadling for six variations of towels. There was a reference to a July-August 1930 issue of The Handicrafter for an article by a Mr. Heartz introducing the draft. I’ve searched for more info but only found that Mr’ Heartz published a lot of weaving articles and was on the faculty at Dartmouth. Also the Pine Cone draft was apparently quite popular in the 1930’s but not much else has been said about it. If anyone know more about it I would appreciate any info you may have. Thanks. Happy weaving, Mike

  Kathy replied 1 year, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies

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  Janet Dawson

  Administrator

  May 7, 2023 at 4:04 pm

  Pine Cone, aka Pine Burr, IS an overshot threading! I always used to think it was slightly broken because the circles don’t finish properly, and then I finally realized that it’s supposed to look like the little overlapping … majiggers* on a pine cone. Hence the name. (Yes, sometimes it really does take me that long to figure stuff out.)

  I don’t have the threading handy, but a quick search for ‘pine burr overshot’ on the googlewebs turned up some pictures, including this one, found here.

  * what ARE those anyway? Not leaves, not petals… they’re more like scales?

  
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    Kathy

    Administrator

    May 11, 2023 at 6:11 am

    yes, they are called scales.

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  Michael Harkness

  Member

  May 9, 2023 at 12:29 pm

  Janet,

  Thanks for the info. I think I’ve found a threading and treadling in another article but it didn’t have a tie up. I have the basic threading and treadling in weaving software for experimentation we’ll see how it goes.

  Mike

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    Janet Dawson

    Administrator

    May 9, 2023 at 1:37 pm

    For overshot the tie-up is always the 2/2 twill sheds, plus two tabby treadles.

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