Article Info
- Article Title
- Finding the Elusive Plain Weave
- Issue date
- Summer 2025
- Issue number
- 1
- Issue topic
- Plain Weave
- Description
All structures will have a form of plain weave, although it may not be as simple as one up, one down. It could be two up, one down, or even three up, two down, depending on the threading. So when a pattern says “Use tabby,” it means that a simple interlacement can be found in the structure, given a one up, one down alternation. Overshot is an excellent example of this and uses alternate warp ends on alternate shafts to form tabby.
In this article, Jette explores and explains how to find plain weave in any structure.
- Article topic list
- plain weave, tabby, language