Plain Weave Experiments
When I first encountered Annie MacHale's book In Celebration of Plain Weave: Color and Design Inspiration for Inkle Weavers I was struck by how similar some of these patterns are to interlinked sprang. After all, inkle weavings are warp-faced and sprang is all warp. So I started trying Annie's building blocks in sprang.
Below are my initial experiments in trying to correlate inkle loom patterns with sprang. Each of the patterns was inspired by a figure of building blocks from Annie's book. For each building block figure I created a sprang sample, an inkle pattern created with Seizenn loom pattern editor that correlates with my results (some are significantly different from her patterns), and a drawing of the sprang cloth. The differences between sprang and weaving show up immediately due to the zigzag path that the sprang threads follow.
These are preliminary results, full of mistakes as I struggle to understand the interlinking structure. The differences between sprang and weaving leave many questions about how to interpret a weaving diagram in sprang. I'm hoping that conversations around these experiments will help to answer those questions.
Below are my initial experiments in trying to correlate inkle loom patterns with sprang. Each of the patterns was inspired by a figure of building blocks from Annie's book. For each building block figure I created a sprang sample, an inkle pattern created with Seizenn loom pattern editor that correlates with my results (some are significantly different from her patterns), and a drawing of the sprang cloth. The differences between sprang and weaving show up immediately due to the zigzag path that the sprang threads follow.
These are preliminary results, full of mistakes as I struggle to understand the interlinking structure. The differences between sprang and weaving leave many questions about how to interpret a weaving diagram in sprang. I'm hoping that conversations around these experiments will help to answer those questions.
Figure 65. Vertical Stripes
Figure 66. Horizontal Bars
Figure 67. Speckles
Figure 68. Chains
Figure 68. Side-by-side Chains
Figure 69. Blocks
Figure 70. Teeth
Figure 71. Teeth
Figure 72. Symmetrical Crosses with too many background threads in the middle
Figure 72. Symmetrical Crosses second attempt
Figure 73. Ladders
Figure 74. Checks
Figure 75. Vines