POLYCHROME TREADLING WRIT LARGE

After I had hemstitched the first piece, I threw a few shots of yellow 20/2 pearl cotton to beat down the hemstitching. Then I placed filler to separate this piece from the next.

RUG FILLER

The filler I used is an off white heavy rug weft.  I had thrown the three shots of 20/2 pearl cotton on treadles 3, 4, and 5 of the polychrome treadling.  Then with the rug filler I laid in the next three sheds and beat in very gently.

A VISUAL IMAGE OF THE STRUCTURE

I realized that this thick off-white weft gave me a very good visual image of what is going on in warp and weft as I treadle. So I continued to treadle 3 through 8.

Reading from front to back, I treadled 6, 7, and 8, then returned to 3 and treadled in sequence through 8. 

This gives me a much better picture of what is happening than does a computer drawdown.  What, in fact, I want to remember to do is to treadle all this with rug weft at the end when I am ready to take the warp off the loom.  Then I can use this as a reference for further planning.  And it should be fairly easy to line these blocks up with the threading.

WARP THREADS NOT TIED DOWN IN EVERY SHED

Looking more closely, one can see that warp threads continue without being tied down for several shots.  With fine threads, this is perfectly fine.  The cloth is not compromised in any way.

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