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18 September 2026
Hi Rachel, I have looked for more photos of you, but that was not very successful. I found a link on...
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15 September 2026
That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
Guest - Katrin
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15 September 2026
I was not referring to Rachel's reconstruction (is the reconstruction you refer to the one photograp...
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14 September 2026
There is something Rachel did not mention. She told me: "Well, I worked with the measurements we too...
Guest - Katrin
Sprang Discussion
14 September 2026
Well, this is certainly developing into an interesting discussion.
Firstly, going from that lovely l...
I've done it.
For ages and ages, I have dreamt of this. Well, admittedly, my dreams were a little bit more spectacular, but still - I've done it.
I have woven an animal.
It's not looking very spectacular, and it's not a very complicated animal (which would actually be rather difficult to achive on only 12 tablets), but it is one. And I was utterly, utterly happy to have managed this...
... not because it is the most beautiful little animal that was ever woven (far from it!). But because it means that I have finally cracked that nut and figured out the system to weave patterns freehand on a twill background.
This was done without any pattern or sketch, starting from a base with all diagonals running into the same direction, using the newly-rediscovered system to change diagonal slants. It's a humble, ugly little animal that looks a bit like it is vomiting, but I'm very, very proud of it.
So... now I will progress. To more, bigger, more complex animals that might actually resemble real living beings so much that you might be able to recognise what it's supposed to be...
I have woven an animal.
It's not looking very spectacular, and it's not a very complicated animal (which would actually be rather difficult to achive on only 12 tablets), but it is one. And I was utterly, utterly happy to have managed this...
... not because it is the most beautiful little animal that was ever woven (far from it!). But because it means that I have finally cracked that nut and figured out the system to weave patterns freehand on a twill background.
This was done without any pattern or sketch, starting from a base with all diagonals running into the same direction, using the newly-rediscovered system to change diagonal slants. It's a humble, ugly little animal that looks a bit like it is vomiting, but I'm very, very proud of it.
So... now I will progress. To more, bigger, more complex animals that might actually resemble real living beings so much that you might be able to recognise what it's supposed to be...
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Catherine Raymond
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on Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:42
Katrin
on Thursday, 13 September 2018 18:41
You change direction of every second tablet by doing a double-turn twice. This starts when you initiate the colour change or direction change of an already existing diagonal, and cascades along just in time.
It's a little hard to explain without a stack of drawings, but it's a rather elegant solution, and not too hard to keep track of (unlike my previous tries).
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