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Sponsored by TWIST - Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques Gudrun. You could take 4 S-plied threads and 4 Z-plied threads and twist them both in the same direction, making two 4 strand cords. I think this will show the difference between a "twist-on-twist" cord (bumpy irregular surface) and the more normal "twist-against-twist" cord (smoother surface). Former will try and untwist much more than latter, which tends to be more balanced. So this is the visual difference you would get if using this idea as stripes in a TW band. I know that page 79 in my TTW looks very dull (no pictures or diagrams !) but it was the result of much experiment in this field. There is, for example, an unexpected effect that a turning tablet has on the actual twist in the threads it holds. This means that a warp thread on near side and on far side of the tablet pack can acquire a (sometimes quite visible) difference of twist. I suppose looking at any pre-1800 TW in a museum collection would give an idea about the type of hand-spinning originally used for warp yarn. Peter Collingwood Send private reply to "peter collingwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------- ---Please put TWIST in the Subject line of your reply----. 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.
