November 2026Peter Collingwood suggests combining intertwining with twining
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Peter Collingwood suggests the combination of intertwining and twining.
Referring to the drawing at the left Collingwood says, "The extra threads can either show on the front of the fabric only, as the left-hand pair in the upper half of Fig.119, or show on the back only, as the left-hand pair in the lower half of Fig. 119. In addition, they can either show equally on both sides, as the right-hand pair in the upper half of Fig. 119, or show hardly at all on either side, as the right-hand pair in the lower half of Fig 119. The four possibilities depend on the way the twining threads cross the basic threads. I feel we need to have language to more succinctly describe these four options, if nor no other reason than for stitch notation purposes, I propose that when the twining thread comes around the intertwining, as in the upper right corner of the drawing the notation could be IL, FF the twining thread is hidden between intertwining threads as in the lower right corner of the drawing, the notation could be IR, Tvl That is, the bold face tells you which set of threads comes around the outside. For the cases on the left, where the twining threads come around front threads in the intertwining group, or the back threads, perhaps that could be indicated with FF(b), FF(f), Tvl(b), and Tvl(f) |
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