Plain & basket

Plain weave

Over, under, every end binding on every pick. The firmest cloth a loom can make and the one a scarf keeps its shape in after a wash.

The complete draft of Plain weave, 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: Plain & basket
Shafts: 2
Treadles: 2
Repeat: 2 ends × 2 picks
Threading: 1 2
Tie-up: 1:1 2:2
Treadling: 1 2
Longest float: 1 warp / 1 weft
Suggested sett: 80 ends / 10 cm

Others in this family

Basket, 2/2
Basket, 3/3
Warp rib
Weft rib

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