It's amazing how much more work I am getting done now that the Tour de France is over. Who would have thought?
Today's sampling features more 8-shaft crepe simulations on my 40 shaft loom. Four shafts are reserved for the selvedges, and the block threading is available for 8 shaft drafts. The following draft (which will look much better if you click on it to enlarge) carries two different 8-shaft crepes in the blocks.
Here's the draft being woven on my (endless) striped warp:
The reverse side looks pretty much the same, so I won't show it to you. Now here's another draft with a single 8-shaft threading in the body of the cloth. This particular threading has max floats of 3, so I tried it with a slightly finer weft. This mysterious weft was a mill-end special, well-aged in my stash. It's of unknown content, a singles yarn the color of dryer lint or dust bunnies. I'm really liking the way it looks on the loom. Washday will be interesting.
By the way, here's the draft (click to enlarge):
An interesting thing about this draft is that it could be optimized for weaving on 10 shafts (including the twill selvedge):
Not that anyone would care to use such a weird threading, but you never know…
