Step 1 - Interleave the Threading
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Start with an Overshot Draft, without the tabby treadles. Change the tie-up to a straight 1-2-3-4 as shown below, with treadle 1 tied to shaft 1, treadle 2 to shaft 2, treadle 3 to shaft 3 and treadle 4 to shaft 4.
Next, step is to interleave the threading with itself, shifting every other warp thread up by 2 shafts.
To understand Interleave Warp with a Shift of 2 and Wrap, think of taking the threading for the single layer overshot warp (as shown above) and adding one blank space after each warp thread. Fill in the blank spaces by taking the warp thread to the right and shifting it up 2 shafts; since Wrap is being used, if a thread on Shaft 3 is being shifted by two shaftss, it will wrap around to Shaft 1; Similarly, a thread on Shaft 4 will be shifted to Shaft 2.
To interleave the threading from this draft with the same threading, that same draft either needs to be open in another window, or a copy of it opened. For this tutorial, we have created a second copy of Start-Step1 (below) that you can open if following along.
To view and switch between currently open drafts, either use the "eye" in the upper right section of the screen, or use the Window function on the menu. Switching Between Open Weaving Designs
With Star-Step1 open and in focus, select the copy in the Interleave From drop-down. Change the Shift UP to a 2, be sure Wrap is checked, click Apply and Accept.
This is what the draft looks like after performing the Interleave with Shift of 2:
Step 2 will handle the interleaving of the treadling and the tie-up.
Presented are two versions of Step 2. One is an 8-treadle version that only involves pressing one treadle at a time; the second is a 6-treadle version that requires pressing more than one treadle at a time (skeleton tie-up).
