Twills

Twill, 4/4

A broad eight-shaft balanced twill. The long diagonal is upholstery territory; the floats want a firm sett so they do not shift.

The complete draft of Twill, 4/4, 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: 8
Treadles: 8
Repeat: 8 ends × 8 picks
Threading: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Tie-up: 1:1,2,3,4 2:2,3,4,5 3:3,4,5,6 4:4,5,6,7 5:5,6,7,8 6:1,6,7,8 7:1,2,7,8 8:1,2,3,8
Treadling: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Longest float: 4 warp / 4 weft
Suggested sett: 112 ends / 10 cm

Others in this family

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

Back to the full catalogue from Twill, 4/4, or read the eight introductory structures at length.