Skeleton Tie-Up Version of Step 2 - Create the Tie-Up and Treadling for 6 Treadles
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If you have a 4-shaft loom, chances are you only have 6-treadles. The method outlined here for Step 2 will perform the interleave and a allow a skeleton tie-up. You'll use features of both Overlay and Interleave in the Weft.
First, a small draft that looks like the tabby treadles will need to be created. The threading and tie-up really don't matter, but the alternating treadles are important to have as shown below.
Open the 2-treadle draft (Star2Treadle.wif) or a draft you created with alternating treadles 1 and 2. Also open the Star-Step2.wif file, or draft you have created with the interleaved threading and 4-treadles.
From the Star-Step2.wif, select the Combine Weft function and select the Combine From draft of Star2Treadle.wif. Select Overlay, and change Shift Right to a 4, unclick Wrap and Interleave Color.
This action will add the treadles 1 and 2 in the From Draft to your draft as treadles 5 and 6. So every weft pick will now have what looks like tabby treadles alternating on treadles 5 and 6 overlayed on the pattern picks.
Add the tie-up on Treadles 5 and 6 as shown (treadle 5 tied to 2 and 4, treadle 6 tied to 1 and 3).
This is the result (also included as Star-Step2a.wif)
Now, there's just one more step. The next one is to interleave the original treadling with this new draft. The original treadling will be weaving the top layer, and the newly generated 6-shaft draft (Star-Step2a.wif) has the treadling sequence for the bottom layer.
For the final step, open a draft with the original treadling, then open the newly created draft with the interleaved threading and treadling with the "tabby" treadles added for pressing two treadles at a time (or draft Star-Step2a.wif).
Bring up the Combine Weft box. Interleave must be checked, there is no shift on this version, and the Wrap can be unchecked (although there would be no wrap in this example anyway).
Click Apply and Accept. Use Color Repeats to alternate colors in the warp and weft and you are ready to weave!
