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October 18, 2008 by Tien Chiu

The big picture

After weaving another 7-8″ tonight, I decided to modify the pattern to make it more interesting in the middle.  I took a four-lobed pattern that had appeared near the beginning of the weaving and repeated it four times, did a little bit of addition and subtraction, rearranged everything so the networked pattern was unaltered in the areas that I hadn’t changed, and printed it out so I could see the whole thing in toto.  Took me about two hours.

Behold the “big picture”:

Full pattern for the black cashmere weft shawl
Full pattern for the black cashmere weft shawl

I haven’t quite decided if this is the final pattern I’ll use, but I like it.  I’m currently almost to the start of the four-lobed sections, so I have to decide pretty soon.

As you can see, it’s a very complex and energetic (“busy”?) pattern.  I think it’ll be OK in the black, but when I move to the more complex color-change shawls, I will probably take Bonnie’s advice and do it in a 1/3/1/3/1/3/ 3/1/3/1/3/1 twill tie-up to reduce the visual complexity.

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  1. Bonnie Inouye says

    October 20, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    Tien, I said to *start* with half 1/3 and half 3/1 twill in the tie-up. Then modify this at the transitions, 4 shafts at a time. See how you like it with less than half up because that will be easier to lift. See if you like a 2/2 transition. See if you want to add (or subtract) another line to a part of the tie-up. Just do it one step at a time so you know that you are in control of this portion of the draft. Bonnie I.

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