Guido wrote:
My understanding is that forward turning moves the top hole from A to B to C to D while backward turning does it the other way (D-C-B-A). Therefore it is: A D weaver (woven end) unwoven warp B C
IMHO this seems to be the opposite way as Carolyn uses in her patterns (that's why I was nearly going mad 3 years ago trying to weave the Birka strapwork motif), which is the same way used in GTT.
That's right, that must be it! My two biggest instructional influences were the Snows' book and Peter's book, and both of those use "forward" in the same way as I do. They also assume that tablets face right, which means that hole identities would progress in DCBA order as tablets are turned forward. If tablets face left and are turned forward, then the progression would be in ABCD order.
Both definitons (sometimes called "clockwise" and "counterclockwise") are used in tablet weaving literature and understanding. I have no idea which one is the more used definition of "ABCD".
Are we still talking about turning directions? (I think so.) I don't know much about literatures other than English, or understandings other than American for that matter. ;> But a large majority of the English works I've read (both American and British) define "forward" turning in the same way as Peter does.
Carolyn
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