Point & herringbone

Broken twill

A straight threading with two treadles swapped, so the diagonal steps and restarts instead of running clean; the ground of many houndstooths.

The complete draft of Broken twill, shaft 1 along the top row: threading across the top, tie-up top-right, treadling down the right and the computed drawdown at the lower left, where a filled square marks a warp end lying over the weft - edit it live in the generator

Draft

Family: Point & herringbone
Shafts: 4
Treadles: 4
Repeat: 4 ends × 4 picks
Threading: 1 2 3 4
Tie-up: 1:1,2 2:2,3 3:1,4 4:3,4
Treadling: 1 2 3 4
Longest float: 2 warp / 2 weft
Suggested sett: 100 ends / 10 cm

Others in this family

Chevron
Diamond
Rosepath
Goose-eye
Undulating twill

Back to the full catalogue from Broken twill, or read the eight introductory structures at length.