Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques Carolyn wrote: > > Michael wrote: > > > > at them from the right instead of the left - the > > > holes have the same names, > > > but the perspective is different. > > > >I've always thought of the "front" of each card, as > >the side with the labels. :grin: > > I think of it this way also. So when I think about it, I consider the > clockwise ABCD order of labeling to be a postulate.
Interesting... I don't think of it that way _at all_. I don't think of the cards as having a front or back. I think of the holes themselves as having an identity independent of which way you look at it. All three of us are actually using the same hole-identity, but different ways of conceptualizing it. I think. If I were to use labeled cards, I'd simply line them up so that the order of the labels matches my mental image of where they should be, regardless of whether they were drawn clockwise or counterclockwise. I don't usually talk about it that way, because I _know_ I'm weird. :) I nearly always talk about it in the way that Carolyn described, because I know that's the usual way. Just once in a while I forget... > I know Sarah uses the basic weaving position I describe above, that's why I > asked if she uses the pack facing right or left. Doesn't matter - it would depend on the tablet labels. It's more important to know what it _does_, I think. I'm very secure in my understanding of how tablet weaving works. *grin* Although I would have said a year ago that I had a good understanding of the mechanics of TW, and yet I've learned a tremendous amount about it since then... I'm going to take a stab at _teaching_ that later this month. I'm very interested to see how that works. I'll make the materials available on my web page too, just be warned that it is up to about 20 pages of color diagrams. :) I had no idea going into this that it would be so complicated, or that 2-hole TW was many times more complex than 4-hole TW! For instance, there are about (notes at home, me at work) 36 basic 4-hole structures, while there are 144 basic 2-hole structures (2 warps in diagonal holes). (There are criteria for what makes a "basic" structure, those numbers are by no means exhaustive!) Those are _unique_ structures, including no mirror images. I'm now on a mission to weave samples of all of them. :) Just to make it worse/better (depending on your perspective), if you use 2 warps in adjacent holes you can weave anything that can be woven, I think, including any structure that can be produced on a floor loom. Sarah Sarah Goslee http://www.stringpage.com -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers Send private reply to "Sarah Goslee" <[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.
