{"id":102,"date":"2011-11-07T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2011-11-07T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T22:00:00","slug":"twil-on-a-frame-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Twill on a Frame Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many new weavers, I&#39;ve always wanted to try twill on my rigid heddle loom, but if you&#39;re like me and have been brave enough to read about using double heddles, special warping, and lifting the heddles in a particular sequence, you may be <em>exactly <\/em>like me and put it off for another time. This morning, I wondered how difficult it could be. Isn&#39;t weaving simply raising and lowering threads and sending another thread over, around, under? Isn&#39;t it a fairly simple process to create a fairly simple piece of fabric? If my (extremely simplified) theory would hold water, could it be that twill is (gasp!) simple?<\/p>\n<p>I dug out my little Wonder Weave loom and looked up twill online. I found <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twill\" target=\"_self\">a very simple pattern on Wikipedia, and started weaving 2 by 2 twill<\/a> with a needle and yarn. It looked bad, but I could see a pattern emerging:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c015436b3aa7f970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twillwonderweave\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a013486cd6e4e970c015436b3aa7f970c\" src=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c015436b3aa7f970c-320wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"Twillwonderweave\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I then warped my Knitting Board (10&quot;). I had purchased the AKB extenders which turn the knitting board into a frame loom for simple weaving projects. I used the identical pattern from the Wonder Weave, and after just a few inches, the diagonal weave of the twill jumped right out at me:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c015436b3ab75970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Twillknittingboard\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a013486cd6e4e970c015436b3ab75970c\" src=\"http:\/\/workingyarn.typepad.com\/.a\/6a013486cd6e4e970c015436b3ab75970c-320wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 1px solid #000000;\" title=\"Twillknittingboard\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Basically, the pattern is two over, two under. To get the twill, your second pass will begin with a &quot;one over, two under&quot; then continue with the 2&#215;2 pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to the image I used when weaving this: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:22twillsm.png\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:22twillsm.png<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Experimenting is the spice of life. Now if I could just finish one of those projects on my &quot;big&quot; looms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many new weavers, I&#39;ve always wanted to try twill on my rigid heddle loom, but if you&#39;re like me and have been brave enough to read about using double heddles, special warping, and lifting the heddles in a particular sequence, you may be exactly like me and put it off for another time. 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