I warped my new Spring 2 recently with a standard tie up of treadles 2-8 for a tabby weave but it produced a weft using treadles 4 and 7 to create a tabby weave but it produced a weft faced weave so I switched to using only treadles 3 and 8 as shown in Jane's early series on warping the first Spring loom in which she used those two treadles, I believe. Again I have a weft faced weave. I want to have a plain weave so that weft and warp show evenly in a plaid design. What am I doing wrong or rather, how do I get the tabby I want? Thank you so much.

I think I may need to call my desired weave an 'even' plain weave as all threads, warp and weft, need to show on the face of the woven product. However, for now I have moved on to learning about Krokbragd and need assistance in my tie up for that 4-shaft weaving pattern. Has anyone attempted Krokbragd on their Spring 2 who can help me? Thank you for any assistance.

Hi Linda,
Krokbragd, that's exciting! I'm not certain on which pattern you have but on your spring loom, your lower lamms are your risers and the upper lamms are your sinkers.

From the JST Knowledge Base, Jane explains this well:

If you are designing using a rising shed drawdown then you take your tie-up straight from the draft and that is what you tie-up to your lower lamms (risers) and then everything else (all the white boxes) get tied to your upper lamms.

If you are using a sinking shed drawdown then you take the tie-up box from your draft and tie that up to your uppers lamms (sinkers) and then tie-up everything else (the white boxes) get tied to your lower lamms.

Hope this helps!