Diamond twill on Rigid heddle loom
Twills bring sophistication to fabric:
This beautiful diamond twill is woven on a Rigid heddle loom. This being a 3 shaft pattern, it is usually woven on a 4 shaft loom, but then the warper-friendly Rigid heddle loom always rises to the occasion when you want to weave something quick:-) This was woven using 2 heddles; no pick-up stick.
The next one is by changing the sequence a bit and coupling it with weft clasping.
Details:
Warp: Shuttles & Needles Cotton knitting yarn 4ply/ Sportweight : Natural undyed & boji grey
Weft: Shuttles & Needles Cotton knitting yarn 4ply/ Sportweight: Toffee rose
Reed: 2 x 12.5 DPI reed
Number of ends per repeat: 14
The drafting plan is given in the below image:
The upper row is the Back Heddle (BH), which is closer to the warp beam, the lower row is the Front Heddle (FH)
Though the warp used in this project is of single colour (natural undyed), 2 colours are used in the diagram to show the path of yarn through the heddles.
The red circle on top shows the loop of yarn as you pull through the BH. As you can see, every 1st & 5th slot will have 2 loops of yarns. Repeat the sequence to your desired width. (we did 18 repeats). Once you draw the loops through the slots of BH, you will warp & wind the warp as usual. Once you wind the warp on the back beam, start shifting the yarns in the slots to the slots in BH as per the diagram.
Keep the BH close to the warp beam (we secured the BH to the warp beam by tying them together). Then, keep the FH in place and start threading the slots & holes of the FH as per the diagram.
You are now ready to weave!
We are going to use 3 different heddle positions for this weave and repeat the sequence:
Position 1: FH up, BH neutral
Position 2: FH neutral, BH up
Position 3: Both heddles down
The weaving sequence is 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 3 2 1 3 2 1 3. One repeat gives you one diamond.
Enjoy weaving!
You may check our tutorials page on how to set up Rigid heddle loom & get started with weaving.
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