Colour-and-weave

Pinwheel

A colour order of two-and-two run over a turned twill spins the dark and light into little windmills, each block rotating against its neighbour.

Pinwheel is a colour effect drawn in indigo warp over natural weft - woven in a single colour the same threads would read as a quiet 2/2 twill, and the whole figure comes from the order of dark and light.

The complete draft of Pinwheel, 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: Colour-and-weave
Shafts: 4
Treadles: 4
Repeat: 8 ends × 8 picks
Threading: 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1
Tie-up: 1:1,2 2:2,3 3:3,4 4:1,4
Treadling: 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1
Warp colours: ■■□□■■□□
Weft colours: ■■□□■■□□
Longest float: 4 warp / 4 weft
Suggested sett: 100 ends / 10 cm

Others in this family

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