ME AND ZIELINSKI: THE TWO DRAFTS COMPARED—PART TWO

Posted by Peg in South Carolina

I still wasn’t satisfied with my decision to go with Zielinski.  So I did some more working and thinking. I needed to work things out using two colors of weft, since that is what I will be eventually weaving.   First, my blocks with alternating treadles using two colors.


Next, Zielinski’s blocks, but my tie up, also with alternating treadles using two colors.

I am so glad I did this.  My threading blocks win.

I learned something very important.  In designing the treadling, I have to watch very carefully from block to block.  In the original version of both blocks, there appeared to be treadled blocks much too long.  They were.  I had not checked to make sure that the first treadle of each consecutive block, on which I throw the green weft, was a different treadle from the preceding block.

To correct this I need to make the following changes.  The second treadling sequences reads 5,6 repeat;  the third reads 5,4 repeat. The result is that both treadling sequences result in the same block appearing in the drawdown. So I must changed the third from 5,4 to 4,5.  And the next treadling must be 3, 5. With these changes there will appear 3 different treadled blocks in the drawdown. 

I need to make similar changes in the remaining treadled blocks.  Making those changes results in the drawdown appearing on the right above.

I could change the order of the colors.  Doing that would also solve the problem.  But that would result in an unpleasant doubling of colors.  The easiest is to change the order of the blocks.

Related Post:   Me and Zielinski: The Two Drafts Compared—Part One

“Me and Zielinski: The Two Drafts Compared—Part Two“was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on September 25, 2009. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.