Twills

Twill, 2/2

The balanced twill and the reason most looms carry four shafts. Over two, under two, a forty-five degree diagonal when sett and beat agree.

The complete draft of Twill, 2/2, 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: Twills
Shafts: 4
Treadles: 4
Repeat: 4 ends × 4 picks
Threading: 1 2 3 4
Tie-up: 1:1,2 2:2,3 3:3,4 4:1,4
Treadling: 1 2 3 4
Longest float: 2 warp / 2 weft
Suggested sett: 100 ends / 10 cm

Others in this family

Twill, 1/2
Twill, 2/1
Twill, 1/3
Twill, 3/1
Twill, 1/4
Twill, 2/3

Back to the full catalogue from Twill, 2/2, or read the eight introductory structures at length.