Point & herringbone

Goose-eye

An eight-shaft point doubled into concentric diamonds. The wider repeat gives a large, clearly drawn eye suited to a tablecloth centre.

The complete draft of Goose-eye, 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: 8
Treadles: 8
Repeat: 14 ends × 14 picks
Threading: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Tie-up: 1:1,2 2:2,3 3:3,4 4:4,5 5:5,6 6:6,7 7:7,8 8:1,8
Treadling: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Longest float: 3 warp / 11 weft
Suggested sett: 108 ends / 10 cm

Others in this family

Chevron
Diamond
Rosepath
Undulating twill
Broken twill

Back to the full catalogue from Goose-eye, or read the eight introductory structures at length.