Inspired by your comments, I decided to play around with Celtic knots (as opposed to Celtic braids) this morning. Several hours of experimentation produced this:
Technically it’s 26 shafts (92 treadles if you express it in treadles) but because of the symmetry I am fairly certain it’s reducible to 24 shafts (possibly even fewer!). I wouldn’t be able to sample it on straight draw threading, which is what I’m using for my sample, so I will probably not use this design in the coat.
Nonetheless, it’s very pretty, and I’m going to file it away for future reference. Someday I’ll weave it, or a variant of it, up. (I am still not 100% satisfied with this draft, it seems a little busy to me.)
Laritza says
December 23, 2008 at 1:45 pmI am wondering if with wider bands of plain weave between the knots it would look better, not twill just plain weave between each stripe of Celtic knots….They are very pretty but I agree a bit too busy for people OUR size 🙂