We are so lucky to have Rebecca Logan back with another episode on 'Diversified Plain Weave, Pushing It Further'.
This lesson has 4 and 8-shaft towel projects using 16/2 and 8/4 cotton and they are absolutely wonderful 🙂
We'd love to see your completed projects.
Drop a comment or question below!

Great session!
I am however a bit confused how to create the gamp with the squares. Could that be explained a little more?
Thank you! Gwen

Good morning - it’s not “spring” here on the east coast yet, so the gardening is slow but the weaving means another project season 10! DPW EPISODE 3 ON 4 SHAFTS.

Is there a heddle count for this project, have discovered that I will be short heddles (on 1 &2 of course) but have to figure out mid-warping which shafts to steal some heddles from….

Any help would be appreciated.
Happy weaving everybody, and happy spring when it gets here.
Elaine

I counted yesterday and you need 166 on 1 and 2, 94 on 3, and 71 on 4. at least thst is what I came up with.
Gwen

Thanks so much to both of you, it’s so helpful to have another way to double/triple check that the loom is warped correctly. BTW, it seems like a very straightforward pattern to load.
Appreciate your input.
Happy weaving!
Elaine

Getting ready warp DPW on my Jack loom. I noticed when sampling that when pressing on treadle 2 the other tabby, harness 2 always raises and I need to hold it down to throw the shuttle. Any ideas on how to fix this? My notes from the cotton cloud DPW said same thing. Thanks.

Hi Catherine,

If you've checked to make sure you have no crossed threads between the reed and the heddles, then it may just be a quirk of your loom. Try easing the tension down a bit, that might help.

If easing up on the tension doesn't help, I have a rather extreme alternative suggestion. You could alter the tie-ups to instead of always tying up treadle 2 with the pattern treadles on 3-10, try alternating 1 & 2. So treadle 3 would tie up 2 and the pattern treadles, 4 would tie up 1 (not 2) and the pattern treadles, 5 would tie up 2 and the pattern treadles, 6 would tie up 1 and the pattern treadles, 7 would tie up 2 and the pattern treadles, 8 would tie up 1 and the pattern treadles, 9 would tie up just shaft 2, and 10 would tie up 1 and all of the pattern treadles. You would use the same pattern of tying up treadles 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9 as shown in each tie-up box, just treadles 4, 6, 8, and 10 would have shaft 1 attached instead of shaft 2.

Yes, the interlacements would change. But because the tie-down threads are so thin, that wouldn't change the essential nature of the cloth. You'd still have no long floats (I checked with my weaving software). And it might avoid the lifting issue with shaft 2.

Your background colours would alternate, so you won't get as distinct different background colours as the towels woven as shown in the pdfs, but we're doing anything we can to avoid a shaft lifting issue, so drastic measures are being taken. If you try this, let me know how it goes!

No fair, Rebecca. : ) I had other projects in a queue for my 8 shaft looms, but was tempted by your episode that I wasn't planning to watch until later -- but I yielded to temptation and became so excited about this weave structure that I jumped it up in the queue and have it on my loom now. I'm really enjoying weaving it and will show off my shawls soon. And I have yarns lined up for tea towels too.

I am always perplexed by these double sided towel projects to decide which is the "right" side. I just finished my 8H set and hemmed them so the hems are facing in opposite directions on each end. Therefore both sides are "right".

I’ve threaded my diversified plain weave gamp from left to right as opposed to the way Rebecca seems to have threaded hers from right to left on the assumption that it shouldn’t really affect the outcome. I think I’ve tied up my David using the tie up shown in the video, remembering to tie up the blanks. I’ve checked and rechecked the threading but my points and curves don’t look anything like the ones in Rebecca’s video. I would really appreciate it if you could show the actual tie up Rebecca used for the gamp as this doesn’t seem to appear in the PDFs and it would help me make sure I’ve got it right before I send my poor husband under the loom! I’m hoping that doing the gamp will help me understand how this structure works as I’m struggling.