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    24-pages of text, diagrams, and color photographs, in pdf format for download. Create drafts for 8 or more shafts in half-drop or brick arrangements which would normally require twice the number of shafts. Related to network drafting, this is a technique for intermediate or advanced weavers with dobby looms or multi-shaft table looms. Includes guidelines for amalgamation with three current weaving applications. View on a computer, or print out one copy for your own use. USD$21. via PayPal. Email aschlein[at]att[dot]net and indicate your preferred email address for PayPal.
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    Class notes from Complex Weavers Seminars 2016, newly revised and formatted, in pdf form for download. A review of methods for designing your own lampas fabrics for treadle looms, table looms, and dobbies, eight shafts and above. Over 90 color photos of actual fabrics with drafts. Includes info on pickup lampas and a lampas bibliography. View on a computer, or print out one copy for your own use. USD$21. via PayPal. Email aschlein[at]att[dot]net for ordering info.
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    Based on the 1996 article in Weaver's, Issue 32. With brand new diagrams and high resolution scans of original fabrics. Pdf available for immediate download. $7. USD. Payment by PayPal. Email me at aschlein[at]att[dot]net for payment instructions.

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February 25, 2008

A Bit of Han Damask

This jacquard swatch from my stash is in a structure known as Han Damask.

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John Becker, in Pattern and Loom (now sadly out of print and fetching astronomical prices in the used book market), describes this ancient Chinese structure as a monochrome weave in which the ground weave is tabby and the figures are warp-faced 3/1 twill. If the 3/1 twill is drafted by merely adding tie points to the tabby, the two weaves will work nicely together in jacquard work. The weave works best if it is slightly warp-dominant.

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The two weaves can be used in tieups or lift plans for block threadings, and also for network drafting based on a 4-end initial.

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Becker has an interesting discussion of the use of heddle rods in weaving Han Damask.

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