Shaded Twills

In Shaded Twills, you’ll learn how to create subtle shifts in color or value, not by dyeing fancy gradients or winding and weaving complicated color changes, but in the tie-up, treadling, and liftplan.

Best of all, you don’t need a million shafts or treadles to get this complex shading. The drawdowns shown here and the majority of drafts you’ll find in Shaded Twills only require four shafts and four treadles, and are easiest to weave on table, dobby, and directly tied floor looms.

Shaded Twills will give students of Classic Twills and upcoming twill courses many more options for four shafts. Weavers with more than four will also learn how to add shading to designs on eight or more shafts, although these designs are best suited to table and dobby looms.

Before taking this class, you should be familiar with the topics covered in

• The Secrets of Liftplans, Treadlings, and Tie-ups
• What is Twill?
• Classic Twills