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Sunday 31 October 2021

Translating Tablet Weaving Draft Designer (TDD)

When you load Tablet Weaving Draft Designer, it checks what you have set as your primary language on your system and if it can, it will use that language. It currently only supports English and Japanese, defaulting to English if neither of those is your primary. Earlier this year, Riko122 kindly messaged us with the offer to write a Japanese translation of the TDD interface. If anyone else out there would be willing to help with translations into any more languages, we'd love to hear from you! 

You don't need to be a programmer to help with this, you just need to be familiar with the equivalent terms for the different TDD labels in the language that you're translating them into. If you message us the translated terms, we'll walk you through adding them to the code.

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Thursday 14 October 2021

New Book!

I'm finally ready to share what I've been working on these past months: a revised edition of my second book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Vacant-Hole Pinwheels. I've learned a lot about writing, photography and book production since 2019 when I released the first edition (including how to put text on the spines of the hard-copies!), so after I completed the revision of my first book (Warp-Twined Angles), I turned my attention to Vacant-Hole Pinwheels. 

As part of the revision, I added an extra draft to the book, so if you already have the first edition and don't want to buy the entire thing again, you can find the extra draft here. I also corrected the small errors in Pinwheels 23 and 24. I'll be leaving the errata page for them where it is for owners of the first edition. Again, my thanks go to Mark R. who spotted the error in the two drafts.

My next book project is something entirely new and will hopefully be ready to share in the spring of next year.

A photo of a tablet woven band arranged to fill the frame, woven in white with orange edges and patterned with purple diagonal lines forming complex pinwheels and S shapes


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Clover

A close up photo of a textured white and purple tablet woven band with orange edges, patterned with a four leaf clover shape in the middle and twisted knot motifs on either side

When I was writing the revised edition of my book Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Vacant-Hole Pinwheels, I added an extra draft to the section that covers the narrow band edging the vestigial hood (the triangle shape at the centre top) of the Hildesheim Cope. I'm sharing it on my blog as well, so that anyone who already has the first edition, but doesn't want to buy a new copy just for one new draft, can grab it here.

A tablet weaving draft for 42 tablets, represented as a grid with the threading diagram at the bottom and squares with grey and white backgrounds in the turning diagram to show the turning directions for the tablets

You can download the TDD file for this draft by clicking here.

In the following text version of the draft, "Empty" denotes a vacant hole.

  • Threading:

    1. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    2. S threaded tablet
      1. Pizazz (#ff8800)
      2. Pizazz (#ff8800)
      3. Pizazz (#ff8800)
      4. Pizazz (#ff8800)
    3. Z threaded tablet
      1. Flirt (#990099)
      2. Flirt (#990099)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    4. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Empty
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    5. S threaded tablet
      1. Empty
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    6. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Flirt (#990099)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Empty
    7. S threaded tablet
      1. Flirt (#990099)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Empty
      4. White (#ffffff)
    8. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Empty
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    9. S threaded tablet
      1. Empty
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    10. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Flirt (#990099)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Empty
    11. S threaded tablet
      1. Flirt (#990099)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Empty
      4. White (#ffffff)
    12. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Empty
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    13. S threaded tablet
      1. Empty
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    14. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Flirt (#990099)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Empty
    15. S threaded tablet
      1. Flirt (#990099)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Empty
      4. White (#ffffff)
    16. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Empty
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    17. S threaded tablet
      1. Empty
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    18. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Flirt (#990099)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Empty
    19. S threaded tablet
      1. Flirt (#990099)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Empty
      4. White (#ffffff)
    20. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Empty
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    21. S threaded tablet
      1. Empty
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    22. Z threaded tablet
      1. Empty
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    23. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Empty
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    24. Z threaded tablet
      1. Flirt (#990099)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Empty
      4. White (#ffffff)
    25. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Flirt (#990099)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Empty
    26. Z threaded tablet
      1. Empty
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    27. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Empty
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    28. Z threaded tablet
      1. Flirt (#990099)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Empty
      4. White (#ffffff)
    29. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Flirt (#990099)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Empty
    30. Z threaded tablet
      1. Empty
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    31. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Empty
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    32. Z threaded tablet
      1. Flirt (#990099)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Empty
      4. White (#ffffff)
    33. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Flirt (#990099)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Empty
    34. Z threaded tablet
      1. Empty
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    35. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Empty
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    36. Z threaded tablet
      1. Flirt (#990099)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Empty
      4. White (#ffffff)
    37. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Flirt (#990099)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Empty
    38. Z threaded tablet
      1. Empty
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    39. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Empty
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    40. S threaded tablet
      1. Flirt (#990099)
      2. Flirt (#990099)
      3. Flirt (#990099)
      4. Flirt (#990099)
    41. Z threaded tablet
      1. Pizazz (#ff8800)
      2. Pizazz (#ff8800)
      3. Pizazz (#ff8800)
      4. Pizazz (#ff8800)
    42. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. White (#ffffff)

  • Turning:

    1. 5F 6B 2F 16B 6F 2B 5F
    2. 5F 6B 2F 16B 6F 2B 5F
    3. 7F 2B 4F 16B 4F 6B 3F
    4. 7F 2B 4F 16B 4F 6B 3F
    5. 13F 16B 6F 4B 3F
    6. 13F 16B 6F 4B 3F
    7. 3F 2B 8F 16B 8F 2B 3F
    8. 3F 2B 8F 16B 8F 2B 3F
    9. 5F 8B 16F 8B 5F
    10. 5F 8B 16F 8B 5F
    11. 5F 8B 16F 8B 5F
    12. 5F 8B 16F 8B 5F
    13. 5F 8B 4F 8B 4F 8B 5F
    14. 5F 8B 4F 8B 4F 8B 5F
    15. 5F 8B 4F 8B 4F 8B 5F
    16. 5F 8B 4F 8B 4F 8B 5F
    17. 3F 2B 8F 4B 8F 4B 8F 2B 3F
    18. 3F 2B 8F 4B 8F 4B 8F 2B 3F
    19. 3F 2B 8F 4B 8F 4B 8F 2B 3F
    20. 3F 2B 8F 4B 8F 4B 8F 2B 3F
    21. 3F 2B 8F 16B 8F 2B 3F
    22. 3F 2B 8F 16B 8F 2B 3F
    23. 3F 2B 8F 16B 8F 2B 3F
    24. 3F 2B 8F 16B 8F 2B 3F
    25. 5F 8B 16F 8B 5F
    26. 5F 8B 16F 8B 5F
    27. 7F 6B 16F 10B 3F
    28. 7F 6B 16F 10B 3F
    29. 9F 4B 16F 4B 2F 4B 3F
    30. 9F 4B 16F 4B 2F 4B 3F
    31. 3F 2B 2F 6B 16F 2B 6F 2B 3F
    32. 3F 2B 2F 6B 16F 2B 6F 2B 3F
As with all of the free drafts/ patterns on this site, you are welcome to weave them, sell bands woven using them, and use them to teach other weavers, just as long as you state where you found them.
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Monday 4 October 2021

Twill Triangles

A photo of a green and white tablet woven band, placed horizontally across the frame against a leafy background and patterned with green triangles between wide white and narrow green diagonal lines

One structure that I don't weave very often is 3/1 broken twill double-face. Over the years I've done a lot with simple double-face (Tablet Weaving in Theory and Practice: Double-Face Inscriptions and Ermine Spots, for example), where the tablets are threaded so that they will produce horizontal bars from selvedge to selvedge if all turned together in the same direction. In twill double-face, the tablets carry two dark threads and two light threads, just like for simple double-face, but are arranged so that they will produce diagonal lines if turned continuously. This means that in order to weave sections of a single colour, turning direction changes must be staggered, rather than all done at the same time as they are in simple double-face. If you're anything like me, this makes keeping a strict count of the pick you are on absolutely essential. I use the horizontal ruler in TDD to help me keep my place, moving it up after I turn the tablets for each pick, but other types of row counters will work too. 

The draft for this band works a little differently compared to the others on my blog, in that there is a set up row/pick. I've placed a black line between picks 1 and 2 to indicate that after the first repetition of the draft, you should begin from pick 2, ignoring pick 1. I've also added a note to the text version of the draft to the same effect.

A tablet weaving draft for 13 tablets in green and white, with forward turns with a white background and backward turns with a grey background

You can download the TDD file for this draft by clicking here.

The text version of this draft is as follows:

  • Threading:

    1. S threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    2. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    3. S threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    4. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    5. Z threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    6. Z threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    7. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    8. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    9. Z threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    10. Z threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    11. S threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    12. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    13. S threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)

  • Turning:

    1. (set up pick- only weave this pick on the first repeat of the draft) 5F 1B 7F
    2. (start here from the second repeat onwards) 4F 2B 7F
    3. 3F 2B 4F 1B 3F
    4. 3F 1B 4F 2B 3F
    5. 7F 2B 4F
    6. 6F 2B 5F
    7. 5F 2B 6F
    8. 4F 2B 7F
    9. 3F 2B 8F
    10. 3F 1B 9F
    11. 9F 1B 3F
    12. 8F 2B 3F
    13. 7F 2B 4F
    14. 6F 2B 5F
    15. 5F 2B 6F
    16. 4F 2B 7F
    17. 3F 2B 4F 1B 3F
    18. 3F 1B 4F 2B 3F
    19. 7F 2B 4F
    20. 6F 2B 5F
    21. 5F 2B 2F 1B 3F
    22. 3F 2B 2F 2B 4F
    23. 3F 3B 2F 2B 3F
    24. 3F 4B 2F 1B 3F
    25. 4F 4B 5F
    26. 5F 4B 4F
    27. 3F 1B 2F 4B 3F
    28. 3F 2B 2F 3B 3F
    29. 3F 3B 2F 2B 3F
    30. 3F 4B 2F 1B 3F
    31. 3F 5B 5F
    32. 3F 6B 4F
    33. 4F 6B 3F
    34. 5F 5B 3F
    35. 3F 1B 2F 4B 3F
    36. 3F 2B 2F 3B 3F
    37. 3F 3B 2F 2B 3F
    38. 3F 4B 2F 1B 3F
    39. 4F 4B 5F
    40. 5F 4B 4F
    41. 3F 1B 2F 4B 3F
    42. 3F 2B 2F 3B 3F
    43. 4F 2B 2F 2B 3F
    44. 3F 1B 2F 2B 5F
    45. 5F 2B 6F

As with all of the free drafts/ patterns on this site, you are welcome to weave them, sell bands woven using them, and use them to teach other weavers, just as long as you state where you found them.

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