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Tablet weaving is especially freeing, because any pattern can be created by turning individual tablets. This is in contrast to normal looms, in which the complexity of the pattern is limited by the number of shafts available to lift threads, and the threading of the heddles. Tablet weaving can also be used to weave tubes or double weave.
Weaving a silk rebozo with a dyed-warp pattern on a backstrap loom, Taller Escuela de Rebocería in Santa María del Río, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. There are also other ways to create counter-sheds. A shed-rod is simpler and easier to set up than a heddle-bar, and can make a counter-shed.
The advantage of a dobby loom becomes even more pronounced on looms with 12 shafts (4094 possible sheds), 16 shafts (65,534 possible sheds), or more. It reaches its peak on a Jacquard loom in which each thread is individually controlled. Another advantage to a dobby loom is the ability to handle much longer sequences in the pattern.
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She returned to Brockenhurst and in 1931 became a founder of the Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. She was the author of Designer's Drawloom: an introduction to Drawloom Weaving and Repeat Pattern Planning [b] published by Faber and Faber in 1958 and described the use of the shaft drawloom developed by Luther Hooper. [3]