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Hi Nancy (and all others),

> I have a question for you folks.  When Guido says "missed-hole
> technique", I think of the technique shown in Candace Crockett's book
> where the pattern is formed when the weft shows through where holes
> have been purposefully left empty in the warp.  The pictures Guido
> shows are what must be warps where the tablets are threaded in only
> two or three holes using two colors which are then manipulated to form
> the pattern.  I am so confused!
> 
I propose that both techniques should be called "missed-hole" as tablets
have unthreaded holes. IMHO the technique _is_ the same, only the result
is different due to the target you want to achieve. In Candace
Crockett's book the goal is to get a certain structure in the band and
to achieve this the threading has a unthreaded holes to form this
structure similar to a threaded-in design.

What I call "missed-hole" is (I am not sure for 100% but nearly...) of
Scandinavian origin. Here the goal is to get clear lines easily with
small patterns. If you would use a 3/1 threading (3 threads in one
colour, 1 in another) it is sometimes very hard to design smaller
patterns. Therfore one hole is left unthreaded so it is easier to
manipulate the turning sequence for cthe desired result.

Hope that clarifies?

Guido
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