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January 11, 2009 by Tien Chiu

More doodling with network drafted huck lace

Following Bonnie’s advice, I tried playing with interleaved drafts and block substitutions in Fiberworks PCW.  I couldn’t get interleaved drafts working since the interleaving would be A-B-A-A-B-A (where A is one draft and B is the other) and I couldn’t figure out how to do that in PCW, but the block substitutions worked great.  So I drew some semirandom lines (a set of circle-like curves, a set of jumpy (“flea”) lines, fiddled around and got it into the huck lace network, and produced the following (all treadled as drawn in, for the sake of simplicity):

First I used the standard “straight” tie-up that came with the block substitution:

random-lines-24-shaft-block-substitution-se-nw-tie-up(Here is the .wif file, if you are interested in examining it more deeply, since the tie-up and threading/treadling are nearly impossible to see in the photo).

And then I tried it by modifying swaths of the tie-up to produce a black-and-white double curve:

Network drafted huck lace, tie-up in double curve
Network drafted huck lace, tie-up in double curve

You can see here that the basic design line remains the same, but the way it’s filled in is much more complex and exciting.  (Here’s the .wif file.)

And then I tried it with the random tie-up I used in my last post:

Network drafted huck lace, random tie-up
Network drafted huck lace, random tie-up

You can see that the design line is radically different, not too surprising since the line of the tie-up is also quite different.  I’m still trying to figure out the influence of , say, diagonal lines vs. horizontal/vertical lines vs. curves in the tie-up – I imagine knowing this will come in handy in later experiments in network drafting.  At any rate, here’s the .wif file.

I have been making rapid progress on the last of the color-change shawls – about a foot and a half woven so far – and am hoping to finish it up today.  Later today I will also dye the yarn for the samples for the cashmere coat – which will be next on the loom.  I’m also going for a bike ride – a short one, since training season is just beginning!

(I have not yet decided whether to do AIDS Lifecycle, but have decided to train – and sew – as if I am, since otherwise I’ll have no hope of finishing either training or sewing in time.  If things get too intense in the spring, I can always drop out.  I’ll do my fundraising later, I’m not seriously worried about raising the minimum since I have a large donor base (I hope!).)

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