Overshot Departures Class Binder

Overshot Departures Class (2022)

Pattern: A 4 shaft overshot pattern set by the class instructor (“Ron’s d4”)
Yarns:

  • Warp: 147 ends, measured at 5yds + 18in, 8/2 unmercerized cotton (natural)
  • Tabby weft:
    • Highly variable, and not always tabby!
  • Pattern weft:
    • Again, highly variable — sometimes cotton, sometimes silk, sometimes wool.


Sett: 16epi
Method: Weaving — multishaft floor loom.
Completed: February 21, 2022.

This was a 2021 Janet Dawson class, that I got off the loom at the very end of 2021, and finished and separated the samples in early 2022. So, it’s technically a 2022 project.

The class was a delightful exploration of all the different treadling systems one can apply to an overshot threaded warp. There were 2 basic tie ups (only), and everything else was achieved by varying the use of tabby picks, order of tabby and pattern picks, what a pattern pick actually meant (flamepoint changes colours based on the block order, not the actual interlacement).

I feel there is so much more to learn…

The setup was to weave page-sized samples for each of the treadling fashions. I captured weaving details, on-loom and after-wet-finishing (front and back) pictures of each of the samples, and then put it all together in a binder:

  • Instructions for the treadling system (from the class)
  • Printed notes with details and photos
  • The actual samples, in a plastic sleeve.

I’m not sure if I’m going to put the binder with my other collections of “samples from classes”, or actually on my bookshelf, as a reference for the different treadling systems!

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