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Thursday, 14 October 2021

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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Tuesday, 28 September 2021

TDD Update: Copyright of Drafts

To clarify copyright issues and how drafts made with TDD may be used, we've added a link to the main page, leading to a new page. On the new page, you will find the following text:


  • Tabletweaving Draft Designer is provided free of charge for use in creating, editing, viewing, and otherwise working with tablet weaving drafts. We do not currently plan to ever charge for it.
  • Any draft created using this software belongs to THE PERSON WHO DESIGNED IT, and that person may use it however they wish. This applies to both the computer-readable .tdd file and any human readable output format (.txt, .png. .svg, .jpg, etc...).
  • You MAY use drafts you designed yourself in commercial work if you wish.
  • We ASK (but do not require) that you include a statement that the drafts were designed using TDD and a link to TDD (http://bazzalisk.org/tabletweave/) so that others might find it more easily.

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Friday, 10 September 2021

OXO

A photograph of a tablet woven band with white, green and blue diagonal lines and diamonds, draped vertically across a leafy background


Back in April 2019, I shared Noughts and Crosses, a new draft I'd put together, with the intention that it would eventually be part of a trio. The second instalment, Tic Tac Toe, came along in December 2020 and now I'm ready to share the third band, OXO. Each of the bands has motifs in common, but are woven using different numbers of tablets and different colour combinations. With only 18 tablets, OXO would be a great choice if you've never woven something where tablets are turned in two directions at once. Like its siblings, OXO is twist-neutral for the pattern tablets, so you won't get a build up of twist behind them.

With regards to the colour choices, the three drafts together represent my place within the SCA. Tic Tac Toe, in red, gold and black, stands for the Kingdom of Drachenwald (which covers Europe and South Africa). Noughts and Crosses, in blue, gold and black (although in the sample band I used navy blue instead of black, as that's what I had to hand), stands for the Principality of Insulae Draconis (which covers England, Ireland, Iceland, Scotland and Wales). Finally, OXO, in blue, green and white, stands for the Shire of Thamesreach (the Greater London area), which was the local group that got me started.

A tablet weaving draft for 18 tablets, producing diagonal lines and diamonds in green, blue and white.

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. Blue (#0000ff)
      2. Blue (#0000ff)
      3. Blue (#0000ff)
      4. Blue (#0000ff)
    2. Z threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    3. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    4. Z threaded tablet
      1. Blue (#0000ff)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    5. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Blue (#0000ff)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    6. Z threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Blue (#0000ff)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    7. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Blue (#0000ff)
    8. Z threaded tablet
      1. Blue (#0000ff)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    9. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Blue (#0000ff)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    10. Z threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Blue (#0000ff)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    11. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Blue (#0000ff)
    12. Z threaded tablet
      1. Blue (#0000ff)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    13. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Blue (#0000ff)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    14. Z threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. Blue (#0000ff)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    15. Z threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. Blue (#0000ff)
    16. S threaded tablet
      1. White (#ffffff)
      2. White (#ffffff)
      3. White (#ffffff)
      4. White (#ffffff)
    17. Z threaded tablet
      1. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      2. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      3. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
      4. Japanese Laurel (#009900)
    18. S threaded tablet
      1. Blue (#0000ff)
      2. Blue (#0000ff)
      3. Blue (#0000ff)
      4. Blue (#0000ff)

  • Turning:

    1. 3F 4B 11F
    2. 3F 4B 11F
    3. 3F 4B 11F
    4. 3F 4B 11F
    5. 3F 8B 7F
    6. 3F 8B 7F
    7. 3F 8B 7F
    8. 3F 8B 7F
    9. 7F 8B 3F
    10. 7F 8B 3F
    11. 7F 8B 3F
    12. 7F 8B 3F
    13. 3F 4B 4F 4B 3F
    14. 3F 4B 4F 4B 3F
    15. 3F 4B 4F 4B 3F
    16. 3F 4B 4F 4B 3F
    17. 3F 8B 7F
    18. 3F 8B 7F
    19. 3F 8B 7F
    20. 3F 8B 7F
    21. 7F 8B 3F
    22. 7F 8B 3F
    23. 7F 8B 3F
    24. 7F 8B 3F
    25. 11F 4B 3F
    26. 11F 4B 3F
    27. 11F 4B 3F
    28. 11F 4B 3F
    29. 3F 8B 7F
    30. 3F 8B 7F
    31. 3F 8B 7F
    32. 3F 8B 7F
    33. 3F 4B 11F
    34. 3F 4B 11F
    35. 3F 4B 11F
    36. 3F 4B 11F
    37. 11F 4B 3F
    38. 11F 4B 3F
    39. 11F 4B 3F
    40. 11F 4B 3F
    41. 7F 4B 7F
    42. 7F 4B 7F
    43. 7F 4B 7F
    44. 7F 4B 7F
    45. 3F 4B 11F
    46. 3F 4B 11F
    47. 3F 4B 11F
    48. 3F 4B 11F
    49. 11F 4B 3F
    50. 11F 4B 3F
    51. 11F 4B 3F
    52. 11F 4B 3F
    53. 7F 8B 3F
    54. 7F 8B 3F
    55. 7F 8B 3F
    56. 7F 8B 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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Sunday, 18 July 2021

New Link for Tablet Weaving Draft Designer!

If you can't currently access TDD or you're getting a 404 error, it may be because the link to it has changed! 

You can now find it at https://jamespbarrett.github.io/tabletweave/ If you usually use http://bazzalisk.org/tabletweave/ it will now redirect to the new address rather than the old address.

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Gecko

A tablet woven band with green edges and a green gecko and foliage motif on a purple background, draped across a hibiscus bush


When I was planning this band, I wanted to play around with some things I don't normally do, namely an asymmetrical animal motif, woven with a light motif line on a dark background, rather than the other way around. I also had some new yarn I was excited to try out.

The yarns I used for this band are from Mothy and the Squid in the colourways Intense Iris and Lime Sorbet, both in her platinum merino/nylon blend sock yarn base. I really enjoyed weaving with this yarn and have plans to use it again in the future. It's really soft to the touch, which made me a little worried, as I've had trouble with soft yarns fraying and falling apart during weaving in the past, but it stood up to the friction of tablet weaving really well. Not a single damaged thread. I suspect this is partly because of the nylon in the blend, partly because of the high twist and number of plies, and partly because it's just a high quality yarn. Another thing that impressed me was that it didn't bleed in the slightest when I soaked it overnight as part of wet finishing. The Intense Iris is so saturated and, well, intense that I was expecting a little bleeding, but there wasn't even a hint. I also have two skeins of the Mothy and the Squid luxury merino/silk/cashmere blend base (which I had to put away in a drawer because I couldn't stop stroking them), but I wouldn't recommend them for tablet weaving. They're softly spun to highlight the fibres and improve the drape and there would be too much friction on them as the threads move past each other. I'm planning to use the two of them for a colour work knitted cowl some time in the future.

I have cut the Gecko draft into two pieces, as it's pretty big. Apart from the selvedge tablets, it's twist-neutral (each tablet performs the an equal number of forward and backward turns), so you won't get a build up of twist behind the pattern tablets.

Part one of a tablet weaving draft with green threads at the edges and a gecko motif in green threads against a background of purple threads

Part two of a tablet weaving draft with green threads at the edges and a gecko motif in green threads against a background of purple threads

You can download the TDD file for Gecko by clicking here.

You can download the text description for Gecko by clicking here.

As with all of the free drafts 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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Wednesday, 7 July 2021

New Video!

 I've made a new video about the steps I use to set up for a new band.



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Saturday, 3 July 2021

New Video!

I'm weaving a vacant-hole band at the moment and I've made a video about how I stop the tablets from rearranging themselves when they have one or more vacant holes. If you're having trouble weaving Petre from elsewhere on my blog, this should hopefully help.



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Branches

A photo of a green and white tablet woven band patterned with leaves and branches, taken against a leafy background

Sometimes people ask how I come up with my ideas. It varies quite a bit, depending on the project I'm working on. For my books Warp-Twined Angles and Vacant-Hole Pinwheels, when I was coming up with their large number of motifs, I worked out some of them by just playing around with a pencil and some draft paper and some of those lead on to others (what happens if I put this line here instead?). Further motifs came about when I was inputting the motifs into Tablet Weaving Draft Designer when I was inspired by the shapes the lines took on above where I was working.

The idea for this particular draft came to me when my mind was wandering during a Very Large Headache. I'd been thinking about coming up with a branching leaves type motif for a while. Sometimes I have an idea of the type of motif I want to weave, then my brain works away at it until it's ready to draw as a pencil sketch. This can be pretty unhelpful if the draft comes together in my head while I'm attempting to fall asleep!

I made a video of how I generated the draft for this band using TDD that you can view below.



A tablet weaving draft for a band in white and green, with a branching, leafy motif
You'll get a build up of twist behind some of the tablets for this draft, so you could tackle it using fishing swivels or combing it out manually, as I did. If you'd prefer to weave it out (working a version of the draft with turning directions opposite to what you've previously done), I've put together a reverse draft. Before you begin it, make sure that you've completely finish the last repetition of the draft above and that all the tablets are in the A-D position.

A draft for the reversed version of the Branches draft, with green leaves and branches on a white background pointing down instead of up

You can download the Branches TDD draft by clicking here.

You can download the text version of the Branches draft by clicking here.

You can download the Branches reverse TDD draft by clicking here.

You can download the text version of the Branches reverse draft by clicking here.

As with all of the free drafts 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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Tuesday, 22 June 2021

New Video!

 


I have a new video up on my YouTube channel. In it I show you how I flip a tablet to change its threading direction.

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