A word about the drafts --

 

Of the three components of a weaving draft, the one least easily changed in practice is the threading. So, these drafts are organized first around similarities in threading. One portion covers drafts with ground blocks (two blocks or three) that are bordered by pattern threads, and another section includes drafts with ground blocks that have one or more of those blocks split by a pattern thread..

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Within a group of drafts that share the same threading of the ground weave blocks, often the only difference between drafts may be which shafts the pattern threads occupy. To make the drafts even more versatile, here are a couple of ways to optimize a threading.

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• If only a change of tieup will enable yet another pattern without changing the threading, it may be simple to change the tieup or add unused free treadles to the tieup where they're needed to create a second pattern.​​

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• It may be possible to weave one or more additional patterns by simply moving a pattern thread, for example, from shaft 5 to 6, or from 6 to 5. It would, then, be worth the effort to leave empty heddles where these changes are planned and use warp-weighted pattern threads to make rethreading easier in these locations.

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In these drafts --​

The drafts that share the same threading are grouped according to tieup.

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All the samples in a given threading/tieup group may be woven with only changes in treadling (or by the addition of hand stitching).