The Basics
This Web Page contains some of the basic instructions for sprang.
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In a nutshell, sprang is a manner of working, an approach that gives you two rows of cloth for every one row worked. "Whaaaat????" you ask. Read on, and all will become clear. A number of structures can be created using the sprang approach. One way to come to understand sprang is to begin by making one of the structures. |
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Two of the structures that lend themselves to sprang are interlinking and interlacing.
Interlinking looks like the structure in a chain-link fence. Many people associate sprang with this structure. The thing about interlinking is that the fabric initially wants to twist around.
Another structure that works well with the sprang approach is interlacing. Interlacing looks like woven cloth, except that threads run at an angle to the edges, not parallel or at right angles to the edges.
Interlinking looks like the structure in a chain-link fence. Many people associate sprang with this structure. The thing about interlinking is that the fabric initially wants to twist around.
Another structure that works well with the sprang approach is interlacing. Interlacing looks like woven cloth, except that threads run at an angle to the edges, not parallel or at right angles to the edges.
Here are instruction sheets and videos, introducing you to interlinking and interlacing
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Here are instruction sheets for the Interlinking structure. I offer two different instruction sheets, one for the right-handed and another for the left-handed.
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The interlacing structure looks like woven cloth. In the video I introduce it for the ambidextrous ... first work right-to-left, and then work left-to-right.
I offer two different instruction sheets, one helps you to make the structure ambidextrously. The other is for the very right-handed.
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The instructions above have you working with threads to create a structure. You will notice that the lower ends of the threads tangle.
If you mount the threads onto a frame, that tangle can be trapped, and it will form a mirror-image bit of cloth. |
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