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Hi Gudrun, Just got your query on "double-what?" from the TW digest. Double-sided and Different-sided (from Janis) sound so generic to me, they could mean almost anything. You have done something remarkable in your experimentation with these designs. They deserve a term that is specific, descriptive and easy to remember. Off the top of my head, I might start with "double-faced twining", adding something that specifies the difference in these patterns. I remember Anne Blinks telling the story from her year at the Textile Museum about Irene Emery and Kate Peck Kent arguing about twill structures. Kent stated that one could determine the structure by looking at only one side. Emery disagreed, so she instructed Anne to weave up a string sample of a twill structure that was quite different on each side. I think Emery labeled these weaves compound structures. I don't think your bands could be considered compound structures. But it might be worth visiting Emery's book, to look for an interlaced version that accomplishes this particular kind of difference between the two sides. I am strongly in favor of borrowing terminology from another class of structures, as long as it can be translated into the new one, just to keep it simple for all of us. Nora P.S. Collingwood has responded to your query since I wrote the above, and I reinforce his thoughts. > > Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:07:32 +0100 > From: "peter collingwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Double-what > > Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques > > > Do be careful about inventing and introducing new words. Irene Emery > devotes pages to double-this and double-that and two-sided and two- > faced in her great book; mentioning what a maze of meanings they > already have. You want a word which describes different pattern on the > two faces of a fabric. But all the 'double-faced' type of words are > descriptive of structure not pattern. So you are in an entirely > different area here. > > Peter Collingwood > > ------------------------------ > > June 23, 2005 > This is a question about terminology. I understand the meaning of > double-faced and double-weave. In the Fall 2004 issue of TWIST I > described several warp twined patterns that have a different > (sometimes similar) look on both sides of the cloth. I want to give > those patterns a name and wonder if "double-sided" is a good one. > Opinions? > Gudrun > June 24, 2005 > Hi Gudrun, > Double-sided sounds good to me, it suggests that both sides are usable > but not necessarily the same. Would different sided be more concise or > just more confusing? > Janis Send private reply to Nora Rogers <[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.
