Turned Drafts Explained

You can put the threading draft in the treadling area of a draft and the treadling into the threading area. It’s called a turned draft. You literally copy one draft into the other position and vice versa. In the next illustration, this draft will be turned.


This is a turned draft: the threading became the treadling, and the treadling became the threading from the first illustration.


I had fun with the pine trees and turned them upside down as well as from positive to negative as in this illustration and the next one.


Here the positive turned to the negative. For more information on turned drafts go to: Mastering Weave Structures by Sharon Alderman and The Complete Book of Drafting for Handweavers by Madelyn van der Hoogt.