Step 2 - Create the Tie-Up and Interleaved Treadling for the 8-treadle Draft
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After performing the Interleave in Step 1, the draft should look like the following (attached as Star-Step2.wif).
Close the panel for Interleave Warp and open the Combine Weft panel in the Weft Group on the Design Menu. Apply a Shift Right of 4, uncheck Wrap, click Apply.
Be sure the copy of the draft is open in another window, or you can open the same draft in another window. Select the "from" draft, be sure to select Interleave, Shift Right of 4, and Uncheck the Warp box.
The first four treadles will weave the top layer, the secod four treadles will weave the bottom layer. By shifting right by 4, and unchecking Wrap, the additional treadles will be automatically added.
The tie-up for the bottom layer will need to be manually entered on treadles 5-8 as shown below. Since the opposite treadle of 3 is 1, the first treadle for the bottom layer will have everything selected except 3. You can see that the tie-up shifts by one for treadles 6, 7 and 8.
A partial picture of the resulting draft is shown:
Usually the warp and weft picks alternate with two colors. The Color Repeats function on the Design menu can quickly perform the recoloring of warp and weft. Select two colors from the palette and add a repeat of 1 through the ending thread. Apply this for both Warp and Weft.
Now your Draft is Ready to weave! You can convert to a lift plan for a table loom, or weave on a loom with 8 treadles.
If your loom only has 6 treadles, you can do a skeleton tie-up as explained in the next entry. Also, if you want to weave on an 8-shaft loom and spread the heddles across all shafts, remember you can use the Warp Spread function.
