Cotton Weaving and Designing / 6th Edition

by John T. Taylor

FIG. 231.

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One of the most useful principles of drafting is the V draft, or point draft. [Fig. 228] is a design based upon this principle; the design is repeated twice over in order to show the effect better, and it will be seen that the basis of the pattern is a “four and four” twill. The first eight ends are drawn from right to left, and by reversing the draft, as in [Fig. 229], the pattern is made to repeat on fourteen ends. The pegging plan ([Fig. 230]) will be the first eight ends and picks of the design. The first and eighth staves have each only one end out of the fourteen drawn through them, whilst all the other staves have two ends in each pattern. The number on each stave could be made equal by making the pattern repeat on sixteen ends and reversing the draft from the ninth stave, with an eight-end twill basis.

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