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  • Amalgamation: Double Your Dobby
    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.
  • Lampas for Shaft Looms
    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.
  • A Crepe Is Not Just a Pancake
    52 pages of text, b&w and color diagrams, and drafts for multishaft tradle & dobby looms. Many color photos of actual cloth. Methods for drafting your own crepe weaves. Annotated bibliography. Pdf available for immediate download. $21. USD. Payment by PayPal. Email me at aschlein[at]att[dot]net for payment instructions.
  • Echo Weave
    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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June 20, 2013

Just Playin'

Just playin' around with some 10-shaft simulations for the straight threading on my 40-shaft dobby loom. Here are some networked satins for 10 shafts which could be woven equally well on 40 shafts. Why? Why not! The pattern repeats would be smaller than networked satin on 40 shafts, for one thing. Sometimes smaller is better.

PW8to40sims

Now here's an amazing discovery, just for weaving software nerds. Everyone else please go away. In ProWeave for Mac, at single-pixel scale, if you copy a draft (which has been made into an object), you can paste it directly into a new pixeLoom file as if you had copied it directly from Photoshop, and it becomes a new draft complete with appropriate threading. I'm flabbergasted. Life is good.

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Posted at 06:00 AM in Network Drafting, Photography, Pixels, Weaving |

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