FSN 101 Lecture 6: FSN101 Textiles I Week 6 Lecture.docx
11 Dec 2012
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Fsn101 textiles i week 6: weaves part ii lecture. Black square represents when a yarn is warp on surface. White squares represent when a yarn is weft. Float: occurs when a yarn crosses over two or more yarns in the opposite direction. Basket weave: always plain weaves, multiple yarns being used as one within the weave. Twill weave: the diagonal lines help distinguish a twill weave. Describes the total repeat of any warp yarn. Bottom number= number of weft yarns warp goes under the first number is the warp yarn top number number of weft yarns the warp goes over the second number is the weft yarn. Page 281, figure 12. 23 right handed left handed steepness of the angle (15, 27, 45, 63, 75) Herringbone: broken twill line changing direction of twill in a very predictable weave created by vertical sections that change directions and go back again.
