Article Info
- Article Title
- Warp-Faced, Weft-Faced, and Balanced
- Issue date
- Summer 2025
- Issue number
- 1
- Issue topic
- Plain Weave
- Description
We are talking about sett here. Sett relates to the number of ends per inch, compared to the number of picks per inch, in a woven cloth. If they have the same number, the cloth has a balanced sett, and if they are different, it has an unbalanced sett.
The difference in sett affects not only the appearance of the fabric, but also the handle and drape of a cloth. A balanced sett will give a flexible handle and drape. The further you move toward an unbalanced sett, the stiffer and less flexible the handle generally becomes.
Janet delves into weft beating and warp sett, weft take-up length (and how to figure it out), threading plans, selvedges, and leaves you with far fewer questions about balance in cloth!
- Article topic list
- sett, balanced, warp-faced, weft-faced