terminology

[peter collingwood]

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"Missed hole technique" is confusing. As usually employed it applies to leaving 1 or 2 holes empty in a warp-twined structure, leading to diagonal or transverse grooves. So they produce three and two strand warp-twined structures. I think the word "missed" came to be used because you normally use all four holes in warp-twined TW.

But there are many other structures produced by NOT using all four holes (see sections, I, N and O in Classified Threading Techniques, which is Appendix One in TTW) These are of course technically missed hole, but I describe them as "Two threads per Tablet".as they give new structures which are not derivatives of 4 thread-per-tablet structures.

This is in that dangerous field where you have to be so careful that you distinguish technique (method) from resulting structure. An accurate description of a band should include both. For instance, "Three-strand warp twining produced by missed hole technique"; " 3/1 Broken twill, produced with two threads per tablet".

 

The desire for snappy short titles can lead to these two aspects getting muddled.

 

Peter Collingwood