Back in 2023, I made a video for each day of advent, picking a random draft from Warp-Twined Angles, then weaving in on a red, white and green warp. This year, I'll be doing something similar using the drafts from Egyptian Zigzags and some of the yarn from a 12 Days of Christmas set that my parents gifted me last year, combined with a skein of Mothy and the Squid black yarn. Like last time, I've modified the threading diagram from the book (the first of the two diagrams below) for this new band, removing one group of four pattern tablets and reducing down the selvedge tablets to just two on each side. Black remains the motif line, but I've switched the background threads for black and rainbow colours rather than white.
Egyptian Zigzags has 154 drafts in total (not including the reconstruction band), but many are have a vertical line of symmetry running down the centre which would look odd with nine groups of four pattern tablets rather than the original ten that the drafts were designed for. To prevent this, I've limited the pool of drafts to the remaining 64, which still gives plenty to pick from.
In the first threading diagram I see only one thread of black per card. In the second threading diagram there are 2 threads black per card. How does the pattern stay the same?
ReplyDeleteIf you look at the position of the threads in the new threading diagram, there is always a black thread in the same position as in the pattern tablets of the original e.g. tablets 8 in the original and in the new one 3 have black in hole D, tablets 9 and 4 have black in hole C, tablets 10 and 5 have black in hole B etc. It's this black thread that I refer to as the motif line as it's what forms the design on the band. The rainbow colours and the other black threads form the background instead of the white from the original.
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