Working with layers, the presets are copied into designs on a grid, foreground and background. Without going into too much technical stuff, it is necessary to have installed a set of pattern presets in Photoshop. Granted, this technique works better with 24 and 32 harnesses, but it is still possible with 16. Along with all the other chapters (including one one circles!), she has a chapter on weaving text. I got inspired for this when I was going through the tutorials in Alice Schlein’s book The Liftplan Connection: Designing for Dobby Looms with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. You are looking at front and back, upside down: But soon, I will be winding a warp for towels on my 16 shaft Ashford. It has taken me pretty much the entire recuperation month to get this far. Mind you, I haven’t even wound the warp yet. Here is the drawdown for my first weaving since back surgery. But it is so intriguing that I can’t stop. It hardly ever turns out the way I picture it. This one is harder to get my head around. Just when I thought I might never stop geeking out on woven circles, along comes a new obsession. It’s my hope that if I go with the straight twill I won’t have any trouble noticing a mistake in treadling. The draft on the right is 3/1 straight twill. The draft on the left is 3/1 broken twill and is the structure that I have used so far for my first towel projects. I think I am going to try placemats out of 5/2 cotton next, sett at 20 epi. Meanwhile, I am still thinking of different ways I can use text in weaving, and wondering if this technique is really that useful, or merely a parlor trick that won’t stand the test of time. It might make me change my mind, but we’ll see. I’d like to hear from anyone who uses the Tempo Treadle with a table loom and if they love it. Then I looked at the price of it for a 16 harness Ashford and …. When you pull the wrong lever, it apparently beeps at you to tell you have made a goof. The Tempo Treadle connects to the levers or treadles on a loom with magnets and sends signals to a little box mounted on top of the loom. I briefly (briefly!) thought about the Tempo Treadle. I have found this program to be quite handy, but when I misread the line of levers I am supposed to be pulling, it can be a problem. I use it when threading with the Threading Tracker and I use it when weaving with the Treadle Tracker. I use iWeaveIt on an iPad set up next to my Ashford table loom.
I wove this little piece at the end of the warp, and I did manage not to make any errors. Looking at the draft at the top of this post, we can see that there is nothing wrong with the draft. Also, the bottom of the E was not quite right. If I had been paying better attention, I would have noticed that the broken twill had turned into a straight twill. Here’s the clue: Below, I drew around one of the places where the mistake occurs. Longer than I want, but still livable for my personal stash of towels.
The real problem emerged when I realized that I had three different instances of pulling the wrong lever for a particular pick. The letters have issues, but I can live with them.
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I was still working out how to space the words in the towel and it ended up longer than I would normally have woven. I used the fonts that I created from embroidery stitch patterns and they are definitely more readable that the Photoshop fonts.īelow you see the weaving draft for “iowaweaver”, both front and back views.īelow is a quick snap of the “iowaweaver” towel. The weaving proceeded slowly but uneventfully (or so I thought!). The 6/2 is noticeably coarser feeling and produced thicker and heavier towels. I wound a warp of 6/2 unmercerized cotton and tied on to the previous warp of 8/2 unmercerized.
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