I'm fine tuning my Repper moves for an upcoming class. One of the things I love to do is resize a pattern to different scales and see how far I can push it.
Here is a screen shot of a Repper tiling in the original jpg format:
Here's what it looks like after cleaning it up and giving it a brick repeat in Photoshop:
I added weave structures for a liftplan for a 40-shaft straight threading, then resized it for 32, 24, and 16 shafts respectively. Read the following Photoshop screen grab from right to left. Click to enlarge.
All versions are weavable, with no floats longer than 3, because the weaves I used were inclusive (1/3, 2/2, and 3/1 broken twills).
Here's a screen grab from ProWeave, showing a few repeats of each version. Reading counterclockwise & starting at upper right, they are for 40, 32, 24, and 16 shafts respectively:
Although more shafts give you clearer designs, the repeats are relatively large. Smaller, daintier patterns are weavable on fewer shafts. Of course you can do a simulation of fewer shafts on a loom with more shafts. But that's another story for another day.