Article · 8 pages · weaving drafts
Part 1 of an article by M. Loescher of Gera-Reuss, Germany, on figured mock-lenos, which imitate true leno gauze through floating warp or filling figure ends on a plain weave ground and can be woven at normal loom speed. It covers the principles (floats, separate figure beam, slack figure warp, reeding), outlines five groups of mock-leno, and works through the first two: quadrangular floats and pointed floats. Numbered designs (drawdowns), sketches and photographs of woven samples illustrate each type.