The overshot most weavers are familiar with has four blocks on four shafts, which offers lots of design potential in the blocks but zero design options in the halftones. Halftones must appear in certain places, and always look and behave exactly the same way. By moving overshot’s four blocks to eight shafts, a vast array of possibilities opens up for designing in the halftones, or even eliminating the halftones all together.
During this seminar we will discuss early examples of eight and ten shaft overshot coverlets, the method of converting drafts from four to eight shafts and the derivation of multishaft overshot tie-ups. We will explore using various tie-ups on well known four shaft threadings.
Instructor: Janet Dawson
Level: All
Categories: Weaving
Supplies that students will bring: Note taking materials
Material Fee: $5 – $10
Materials Included: The material fee includes printed handouts, exercises, glossary of related terms and a bibliography.