Namedrafting by Blocks

The classic form of namedrafting maps letters of the alphabet to shafts on the loom, as described in the Weaver’s Toolbox entry Namedrafting for Overshot.

This method has a couple of drawbacks:

1. You often wind up with threadings that don’t alternate between odd and even shafts, which requires first deciding whether to add or subtract ends, and then deciding where to or subtract them. In short, it requires making DECISIONS, and avoiding decisions is often the reason we’re namedrafting in the first place!
   
2. The threading repeats are very short: approximately as long as the word or phrase you started with.

Namedrafting by blocks solves both of these problems with one simple change — and produces threadings you can use not only for overshot but with any unit weave!