8 shaft weaving drafts

Weaving archive site with thousands of historic weaving drafts, documents, and tools

Weaving archive site with thousands of historic weaving drafts, documents, and tools

Threading variations for twills on 8 shafts include extended point twills and advancing twills. These give us many design options such as Ms & Ws and snowflake twills.

A weaving post! Finally..... and hopefully you'll find it was worth the wait. 😁 It all started with this 16 shaft point twill draft, which I believe was designed by Ingrid Boesel. I was playing around with the colour gradient feature of Fiberworks (for Mac) and knew I had the colours in my tencel stash. I have been enjoying working more with blues and teals this year and they are popular when it comes to sales. The colours shown aren't quite like the yarns I actually used but close enough…

Weaving archive site with thousands of historic weaving drafts, documents, and tools

Weaving archive site with thousands of historic weaving drafts, documents, and tools

I am fascinated by men’s silk ties. Unfortunately, the number of men wearing ties continues to decline . . . however, there are still some men out there wearing ties and I salute each and every o…

Weaving archive site with thousands of historic weaving drafts, documents, and tools

Its snowing here today..... and the wind is blowing it in sideways. ❄️💨 Definitely a good day to stay inside and keep warm. Yesterday it was brilliantly sunny, and a lot greener outside then it is right now. I took Judy out for an airing and took some pictures of a scarf I finished a few days ago. I thought it might be my last chance for while and it seems I was right. I bought a painted silk warp last month from another weaver. Its called 'Mystique" and was made by Christine of Carr Park…

You can weave plain weave and twill on 6 shafts, by using 4 shafts for the twill and 2 for the plain weave.