Lifting Plans.
It is now necessary to indicate when the healds shall be lifted to make the cloth with the given draft. A portion of the point paper is taken as many spaces wide as there are healds, and as long as there are picks to the round.
Taking [Fig. 37] again, for example, we find the lifting plan at D, the ends and picks being numbered. The marks indicate where the heald has to be lifted at the pick indicated; thus, taking the first heald, we find it to be lifted at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th picks, a working necessary for the first end, which is drawn on the heald in question. The pegging plan for a dobby is a modification of this. (See page 106.)
For a straight draft the pattern is exactly a duplicate of the lifting plan. Other names for this plan are tie, working design, treading plan, and shedding plan. The tie is a plan serving the same purpose of the lifting plan, but somewhat differently arranged, the end being laid horizontally in a line with the heald through which they are drawn; thus, for the honeycomb, [Fig. 37], the tie-up is shown at [Fig. 38], in which A is the tie-up.
FIG. 38.
The lifting plan for [Fig. 32] is shown at [Fig. 34], A, while the tie-up is shown at [Fig. 34], B.