Interpreting Professional Drafts
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An article from the Shuttle-Craft Bulletin explaining how multiple-harness handweavers can read the square-diagram draft notation used in professional and industrial weaving books. It walks through finding the repeat, numbering threads and shots, reading the tie-up, and converting a sinking-shed tie-up to a rising-shed one, using a worked example of a 10-harness braided twill from Hauptmann. Further figures interpret sample diagrams from Oelsner, Poma, Strong and Watson, including fancy, broken, uneven, combination and waffle weave twills.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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