NOT FAIR

Posted by Peg in South Carolina

Having found such an interesting and delightful draft in applying PixeLoom’s tromp-as-writ feature to standard 4-shaft crackle, I just had to……….    Yes, I just had to try it with the draft I am using for my current green crackle project.  And here is the result.

It uses only four treadles.  It requires no tabbies.  And…….it’s beautiful!

Just to see what would happen, I used Zielinski’s tie up for six treadles and manually entered in a treadling similar to the one that PixeLoom generated.

This uses six treadles.  It does require tabby.  And I like the first one above much better.

Still, I will have to try both when I get the warp on the loom.  Weaving software can only give an approximation of what the piece will look like.

For example, one reason I do like the idea of tabbies (yes, I am truly nuts!), is that in the tabbies I can give hints and glimmers of another color, a very strikingly different color if I so choose, that would look just terrible as a pattern weft but would give some punch in the tabby.  Computer software, so far as I can see, cannot give even a glimpse of such possibilities.  I know about them only from my own actual weaving.

“Not Fair” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on January 21, 2010. ©2009 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.