Textile Society of America
Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings
Date of this Version
2024
Document Type
Presentation
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Textile Society of America 2024 Symposium
Shifts & Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles, November 12-17, 2024, a virtual event
Abstract
The most common form of tablet-woven, diagonal color stripes employs four-hole tablets and yields narrow bands having diagonal stripes in two colors. The twining directions of selected groups of cords can be reversed along a diagonal to create patterning. An extension of this technique to six-hole tablets having three-color diagonal stripes has been published. Here, I describe the weaving of textiles having diagonal four-color stripes using eight-hole tablets. Direct extension of the canonical technique to eight-hole tablets yields textiles with the desired striping, but they are thick and have less distinct patterning. Thinner, more tightly woven textiles can be obtained if the eight threads destined for a single eight-hole tablet are evenly distributed in every other hole of two successive octagonal tablets. The color sequence stays the same throughout, but the colors are shifted to advance, one-by-one, either clockwise or counter-clockwise. Reversal of stripes along a diagonal can be accomplished by using two individually turned packs of tablets, just as for the four- and six-hole versions. Weave structures and other physical characteristics of textiles from different methods are compared.
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