Skeleton Tie-Up Version of Step 2 - Create the Tie-Up and Treadling for 6 Treadles

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.

Open the results of the interleaved threading as completed in step 1. The draft is included below for your convenience.

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Star-Step1.wif

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Interleaved Warp and Straight Tie-Up

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. The draft, TabbyDraft.wif is included for download.

2-Treadle Draft Tabby Draft

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TabbyDraft.wif

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Open both the Tabby Draft .wif and Star-Step2.wif (draft with the interleaved threading and 4 treadles with straight-draw tie-up).

With Star-Step2 in focus, from the Design Menu select the Combine Weft function. In the Combine From window, select the TabbyDraft. 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 "Tabby" Treadles

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)

Weft Treadling with the "Tabby Treadle" Overlay

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Star-Step2a.wif

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After Interleaving the Tabby Treadles with Overlay

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 this final step, you need to have open in TempoWeave the newly created Star-Step2a.wif and a draft with the original treadling (this can be either Star-Step1.wif or Star-OvershotOriginal.wif).

With the the newly created draft (Star-Step2a.wif) in focus, bring up the Combine Weft box on the Design Menu.

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).

Interleave the Weft for the Top Layer

Click Apply and Accept.

Use Color Repeats to alternate colors in the warp and weft and you are ready to weave!

Snapshot of Final Draft after Alternating Warp Colors

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Star-Double-6Treadles.wif

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Ready-to-Weave with 6-Treadles