Threading a Master Warp

For large projects with complex threading

a prototype allows the weaver to check for mistakes.

By keeping it on the loom as a master warp

it holds the pattern and helps reduce loom waste.

The design for this point twill pattern was developed

between 2019 and 2024.

The treadling is 312 steps for half a sub-sett.

Half of a full sett contains 2.5 full sub-setts.

It is both large and complicated.

The many colours are utilized to help make it easy to read

at a glance.

The structure of the warp is one full, mirrored sett

with an approximately .25 sett border.

Making this prototype will take nearly all

of every size

of my scrap, thrifted, gifted and inherited yarns.

Since this will be the warp I see at the beginning and end of every project, I tried to arrange the colours beautifully, while alternating large and small threads one to one.