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Dear Guido, I did some missed-hole tabletweaving several years ago. Here is a short summary of my experience: My first vacant hole bands were from Mary Atwater's Byways in Handweaving, and the vacant hole aspect barely showed -- usually a very subtle line. But it was a little different than if I had threaded the card in that hole and the bands were pretty. The backside had lots of dimples, which I quite liked. One could create a pattern emphasizing the dimples. [See p. 7, diagram no. 3, last diagram (1954 edition).] I played with 2-vacant-hole threadings using natural linen warp and a colored wool weft. The vacant holes were set up in diagonal/diamond derivative designs. These were fun to weave and somewhat attractive. Then I got the bright idea that I could use tablets to create coverlet type patterns using 2-hole threaded 4-hole cards, and made a large sampler. However, I did not use a tabby weft in addition to the floating wefts and it is too loose to be of any use. The threading was adapted from a four harness weave. I did not pursue it beyond the sampler. When I got a copy of Paulli Andersen's Brikvaevning, I played with some of her vacant hole threadings. One is a 2-hole split pack technique, with alternate SZ threading, which gives a nice diagonal interlacement pattern. The weft does not show, but the absence of the 2 warps in each card tilts the remaining ones more than 4-thread patterns. [page 31] There are other types of missed hole patterns in her book as well. In Margarethe Hald's Olddansk Textiler are patterns for the Mammenfundet band, which is 2-hole threaded in adjacent holes. This pattern requires individual turning of cards, hence is fairly time consuming. I made a few samples of this pattern in different yarns: Swedish cowhair, Multiple Fabric warping yarn, worsted rya, Norwegian spaelsau tapestry yarn, alpaca rug weft. Most were natural white, but the medium brown worsted rya showed the ridges of the pattern best. There is also a 2-hole pattern, similarly woven, from the Snartemofundet in Hans Dedekam's monograph on that find. You can open another door in this technique by using 3-hole cards with one vacant hole, or 6-hole cards with 2 vacant holes. I have a sample from the Anne Blinks Textile Study Collection (which I inherited recently) which looks like she used 3-hole cards with 1 vacant hole, cards paired, and turned as though the pack were 6-hole! [see TTW p. 131.] Because of the paired cards, the weft shows quite well. I don't know if the above is helpful or a hinderance! But perhaps you can see there are still avenues left to pursue. Nora Rogers Santa Cruz, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:41:14 +0100 From: Guido Gehlhaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: How do you do missed-hole ? Hello all, currently (beside preparing Christmas...) I am working to finish a missed-hole warp (hopefully until Christmas, even if will not be a gift). The way I work is drawing out the pattern on some kind of graph paper (normal checkered paper) and then developing the turning sequences by marking e.g. backward turns in an other color than forward turns. That is a way I learned the 3/1 double-faced twill as well, even if I also use the "two pack method" described in TTW. Now I am looking for an idea how missed-hole patterns can also be weaved easilier (like the two pack method is an easier way for weaving 3/1 twills). But even if I already worked out and weaved about 10-12 patterns I have no idea what can be done. I can also find no information on that (TTW, known websites etc.). Does anyone know of any sort of more detailed information written down on missed-hole technique (literature, former TWIST issues, websites)? Or has anyone here more experience in that technique and can give me any hints? Thanks all a lot and have a nice Christmas Guido Send private reply to Nora Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
