Article Info
Article Info
- Article Title
- The Twisting and Turning of Tracking
- Author
- Laura Fry
- Issue date
- Summer 2025
- Issue number
- 1
- Issue topic
- Plain Weave
- Description
- We have all done it: woven a perfect plain weave, then wet finished it and been confronted with some kind of weird design. What happened?
This is referred to as tracking, and it’s most visible in plain weave. Consensus concludes that when the twist energy in the yarn meets water, it allows that twist to shove the yarns around within the cloth. This article explores why tracking happens and how to minimize it. It explores the impact of cloth density, structure, and yarn choice.
- Article topic list
- plain weave, twill, tracking, experiments