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----- Original Message ----- From: "Louisa Chadwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8< *snip* 8< >I would > also like to mention that S & Z are a normal way of thinking about twist > direction if you're a spinner. This is the very reason I personally prefer Collingwood's definition where you look at the path the threads take through the tablets! I spun before I really got into tablet weaving, so for me it seemed the most natural approach. If you spin a thread in S, you ply it in Z and vice versa. To me that translates nicely to TW - if a tablet is S-threaded it produces a Z-twisted cord (when turning forwards, which is the direction I've come to see as "the way to start it off"). When I taught tablet weaving I used this definition, but told my students that there were other ways of describing the threading too. I also said that the best way to not get confused was simply to learn what it is that makes tablet weaving work and look the way it does and gain understanding of the structure of tablet weaving. Once you get everything to go "click" in your head, it's not that difficult to work around the different terminologies. Playing around with GTT did it for me and when I finally understood how and why the weaving ends up looking like it does, the different definitions ceased to be a major problem for me. But it took some time and work to get there... /Vix. Send private reply to "Viktoria Holmqvist" <[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.
