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| Crackle woven in the overshot manner |
What is crackle weave? Simply put, it's a 3-shaft point-twill block
weave.
Definition & Characteristics
- Crackle is a twill based block weave.
- The blocks are composed of 3-shaft point-twill threading units,
- but it isn't a unit weave. In a unit weave, the blocks weave independently of one another.
- Crackle blocks do not weave independently of one another because each block shares pattern shafts with one of its neighbors.
- Blocks A and B share shafts 2 and 3
- Blocks B and C share shafts 3 and 4
- Blocks C and D share shafts 1 and 4
- Blocks D and A share shafts 1 and 2
- The number of blocks is determined by the number of shafts. 4 shafts can weave 4 blocks.
- In 4-shaft crackle, blocks weave as either pattern blocks and background blocks.
- As a twill derivative, treadling follows the odd/even shed order of twill.
- To maintain that order, transitional thread ends (incidentals) are used between blocks.
- Floats are no longer than three ends or picks.
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