Varying the M's and O's Draft
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An article from the Shuttle-Craft Bulletin by Harriet Tidball on variations of the classical M's and O's draft, a four-shaft weave that contrasts tabby and weft-rep blocks. It covers enlarging the threading units to lengthen rep floats, adding a balance unit, using three or five threads per rep rib to avoid overlapping blocks, and adding twill or broken twill areas. It also describes a ten-thread unit with added tabby threads. Threading and drawdown diagrams illustrate each variation, and the last page shows a woven sample.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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