Showing posts with label five thread twill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label five thread twill. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Five Thread Twill Blocks

Squeezing every bit of juice out of a warp is one of my pleasures in life.  Since I seem to have a rather short attention span (blame it on TV), I can't stick with one weave structure more than a few yards without getting bored.  I started thinking about what other structures I could weave with the five thread blocks  and  decided I would try a five thread twill.  On the computer I played around with a variety of five thread twills, but the resulting cloth looked messy, so I went with tried and true 1/4 and 4/1 twill blocks.  What I didn't realize and should have, is that these blocks would create a textured cloth - almost embossed in appearance.  I deliberately did not press the cloth down flat so that the raised texture would be more prominent.