8-SHAFT CRACKLE TREADLED ON OPPOSITES

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Note that these treadles are not truly opposite sheds.  In every case, there is overlapping of shafts.  This means that there are some excessive warp floats.  And that means that tabbies need to be used.

Here is a better image of the reduced-size drawdown. 

That image shows with greater clarity the interrupted diagaonal in the bottom half of the image.  Some investigation is in order.

"8-Shaft Crackle Treadled on Opposites”  was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 16, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

S&W: ANOTHER WAY TO USE COLOR

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To the right is a better image of the reduced sized draft.  Even so, this is not as good as others I have used.  I think that the highly contrasting red must create color rendition problems? 

Microsoft Publisher is clearly fine if I want to include a full-scale draft.  But the more I reduce the image, the more problematic the image becomes.  Even the actual colors are not the same.

I am looking into other publishing software programs……..

Related Post:    S&W Treadling and Color

"S&W: Another Way to Use ColorS&W: Another Way to Use Color was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 16, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

S&W TREADLING AND COLOR

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IMAGE PROBLEMS WITH MICROSOFT PUBLISHER
It has become clear to me that Microsoft Publisher has a definite problem with images, or at least images created with weaving software.  Just below is the image on the right hand side of the above page, saved as a png file and brought into my blogging software (Windows Live Writer).  It looks perfectly fine--just like the JPEG files I bring into my blog.



I looked at Publisher to see if there was a way I could export images into its pages instead of copying and pasting.  The only thing I could find was an Insert picture function.  That is pretty much how I bring images into my blogging software.  But when I tried it with Publisher, there was only the slightest improvement in reproduction.

I do not have the latest version of Publisher, but when I checked, that version has a graphics manager which, from its description, sounded like it might handle my problem. But then I found this disclaimer:

If you want to insert a picture from another program, you can copy and paste it. The pasted picture might not appear the way you expected, but copying and pasting may be the best way to use a picture from a program that is not part of the 2007 Microsoft Office system. (Go here to read more).

Soo…..it looks like I live with the problem or find another program, a non-Microsoft program…….

Related Post:   More Summer and Winter Treadling

"S&W Treadling and Color” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 15, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

MORE SUMMER AND WINTER TREADLING

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Here, with all the blocks treadled, the twill diagonal is once again visible.

“More Summer and Winter Treadling” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 12, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

8-SHAFT CRACKLE TREADLED SUMMER AND WINTER

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The image in the lower left-hand corner is simply a reduced version of the drawdown.  I included it because it gives a better idea of what it might look like woven as fabric.

Keep in mind that black is warp and white is weft.

Related Post:  Summer and Winter…and Crackle (of Course!)

“8-Shaft Crackle Treadled Summer and Winter” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 11, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

TROMP AS WRIT ALTERNATING COLORS

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Related Post:  8-Shaft Crackle Treadled Tromp as Writ

 

“Tromp as Writ Alternating Colors” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 10, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

8-SHAFT CRACKLE TREADLED TROMP AS WRIT

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Tromp as Writ

“8-Shaft Crackle Treadled Tromp as Writ” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 9, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

MORE 8-SHAFT CRACKLE COLOR PLAY

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Related Post:   Color and Crackle Curves

“More 8-Shaft Crackle Color Play” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 8, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

CUTTING AND PASTING TO EXTEND THREADING

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I did the cutting and pasting in Microsoft Publisher, the software I have been using for this crackle journal.  It is not the best job of pasting but it might actually be useful for me to see exactly where the divisions are.

I can see cutting and pasting weaving drafts as a useful tool for designing complex threadings.  The technique could be done in any software that allows cutting and pasting as well as rotating and flipping of images.

Related Post:  Color and Crackle Curves

“Cutting and Pasting to Extend Threading” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 5, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

COLOR AND CRACKLE CURVES

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I had done some playing with color gradations in crackle earlier.  See my post, “Shading the Pattern Weft Yarns” for what I did there. I had liked playing with color gradating there, so I decided to try it here.  This is just a rough sketch.

 

If you go to the earlier post, you can see that I have become a bit more complex in my playing. 

“Color and Crackle Curves” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 4, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

DIAMONDS TO CURVES

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This started out as an attempt to see what would happen if I varied the number of treadles in the different treadling blocks.  I learned that I could create curves that way, something I had not anticipated.

I had played with varying the number of treadles in 4-shaft crackle, but certainly did not come up with anything like this.  Go to the post, 4-Shaft Crackle 01.12.10 to see what transpired there.

TABBIES

By the way, tabby is needed but not indicated.  It is needed because those long warp ends (the black threads) need to be tied down. 

Tying down the warp ends with tabbies will have another affect as well.  It will break up those narrow black/white bands so that they will look a bit more like plain weave.  Depending on the color and the fineness of the tabby wefts, they will also to some extend break up the pattern.  If I use tabbies the same color as the warp, the black pattern blocks will be little affected.   If I uses tabbies the same color as the weft, the white pattern blocks will be little affected.

 

“Diamonds to Curves” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 3, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

DIAMOND POSSIBILITIES COMPARED

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Who would ever have thought that more than four shafts could be a disadvantage in designing?!

 

“Diamond Possibilities Compared” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 2, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

ANOTHER OVERSHOT TREADLING

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“Another Overshot Treadling” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on March 1, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

OVERSHOT TREADLING EXTENDED

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“Overshot Treadling Extended” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 26, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

COMPARING 4-, 8-, AND 6-SHAFT CRACKLE

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Reading the little bit on plain weave and looking at the 8-shaft drawdown will give you a clue to the kind of problems I have with designing 8-shaft crackle and why, till now, I have totally avoided it.

“Comparing 4-, 8-, and 6-Shaft Crackle” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 25, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

8-SHAFT OVERSHOT TREADLING

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This is only one tie-up of several possibilities.  For now, this is the tie-up I will be using.

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“8-Shaft Overshot Treadling” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 24, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

BEGINNING 8-SHAFT CRACKLE

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For now I am done with 6-shaft crackle. I will return to it (and also to 4-shaft crackle) when I have gone through some of the basics of 8-shaft crackle.

8-shaft crackle has never been something that interested me.  It seems to be used primarily as a way of creating all-over designs involving triangular shapes.  I am hoping that this investigation will show me that there are other possibilities for this version of the crackle structure.

To produce a clear threading in my publishing software, I had to spread the theading over a bit to the left page (The gray vertical line on the left side indicates the page split.  But since the pages face each other, this will not be a problem at least when viewed in the software.  To accommodate printing, I would have to make some changes.

“Beginning 8-Shaft Crackle” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 23, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

SUMMARY OF 6-SHAFT TIE-UP COMBINATIONS

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“Summary of 6-Shaft Tie-up Combinations” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 22, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

TREADLE ENVY

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I have not bothered to include a tie-up because the tie-up is so simple.  Just attach one treadle to each shaft.

Here is the link to Tim’s Rudimentary Treadle Reducer.

Related Post: Combining Tie-Ups in 6-Shaft Crackle

“Treadle Envy” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 18, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.

FOURTH TREADLING

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“Fourth Treadling” was written by Margaret Carpenter for Talking about Weaving and was originally posted on February 17, 2010. ©2010 Margaret Carpenter aka Peg in South Carolina.