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DESIGNING WITH CURVES
'Pattern Telescoping'
© Judie Eatough

1. Draw a curve. Use as many rows as you like.
2. Enter it as threading and copy it for the treadling.
3. Choose tieups that will reduce the curve to the number of profile blocks that you want.
4. Fine tune the draft.

 

Tieup #1 C Telescope to 4 blocks.

Tieup # 2 C Turned Twill for 8 blocks.
1-TELE1.jpg (32652 bytes) 2-turntwill.tif (26126 bytes)

Tieup #3 C 3/3 twill for 6 blocks.

Tieup #4 C Counterchanged for 4 blocks.
3-3TWILL.jpg (35789 bytes) 4-COUN1.jpg (36688 bytes)

 

Curves

Designs using four curves (graphs are below) and the above tieups to experiment with designs.

 

Circle graph with the four tieups. #1, #2, #3 and #4.
1-CIRCLE.jpg (11618 bytes) 2-CIRCLE.jpg (10052 bytes) 3-CIRCLE.jpg (9976 bytes) 4-CIRCLE.jpg (10127 bytes)

Sin(x) graph with the four tieups. #1, #2, #3 and #4.
1-SINX.jpg (11487 bytes) 2-SINX.jpg (12292 bytes) 3-SINX.jpg (11029 bytes) 4-SINX.jpg (11540 bytes)

Lemniscate graph with the four tieups. #1, #2, #3 and #4.
1-LEMNI.jpg (10418 bytes) 2-LEMNI.jpg (10700 bytes) 3-LEMNI.jpg (10066 bytes) 4-LEMNI.jpg (10613 bytes)

xa graph with the four tieups. #1, #2, #3 and #4.
1-X-1-3.jpg (9680 bytes) 2-X-1-3.jpg (10445 bytes) 3-X-1-3.jpg (9149 bytes) 4-X-1-3.jpg (10248 bytes)

Each curve has been reduced to a new curve that has the predetermined number of blocks (or fewer). After generating the new draft, new variations can be tried.

CIRCLE.jpg (56984 bytes) Circle

 

SINX.jpg (67604 bytes)Sin(x)

 

LEMNI.jpg (85934 bytes)Lemniscate

 

X-1-3.jpg (43301 bytes) x1/3

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