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Hi Carla, > I have read about two approaches to weaving 3-1 twill; the one-pack > technique and the two-pack technique. Before I attempt my first band > using either of these techniques, I would be interested to hear > opinions about the the advantages and drawbacks of each one. the answer is (as nearly always ;-) "it depends". The result of both techniques is the same. From my experience the 2-pack method works faster when you weave large motives or even only one-coloured (e.g. spaces between motives). The 1-pack method is of course the slower method in these cases, as you weave card by card for every row. If you have very "fine" motives with lot of colour changes or very fine ornamental lines, the 1-pack method seems to be the faster method from my feeling (I never stopped the time I needed), as you do have to do a lot of flipping of the cards and have to work very carefully to find out the cards that need to be flipped in the pack. The 1-pack method is in my opinion also "easier" to weave when you have a pattern created (weaving diagram) as you only need to work row by row, knowing exactly which card to turn in what direction. Creating motives on the other hand is easier when you use the 2-pack method, as you can simply draw the pattern on a rectangular paper, e.g. linke the one on Phiala's website (http://www.duke.edu/~scg3/grpaper.html). When you create patterns for the 1-pack method you have to work very carefully and you must be able to imagine exactly in which position the card is before thinking of how e.g. colour or direction changes effect the turning sequence for each card. Therefore, designing patterns for the 1-pack method can be a lot of preparation work before weaving, while designing patterns for the 2-pack method is quite easy. The result from my experience is: Use the 1-pack method for small and fine motives and use the 2-pack method for large motives or uni-coloured weaving. Nevertheless every weaver should try out both methods and see, which of these two methods is the one he feels more familar with. Guido -- -- http://www.steinmaus.de/ where I go what I'll become or who I am or what I'll be I'll never know GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net Send private reply to Guido Gehlhaar <[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.
