So I’ve been idly daydreaming, along with friends, about getting looms with moar harnesses! And wondering how much of a difference it would make, and how I could draft patterns for it …
And I like brick-work. One of the first patterns I worked out how to tablet-weave from first principles was the woven in version of Birka strapwork. So here, for my first case of many harness pattern drafting, I present the 8 and 12 harness versions of birka strapwork. Now all I need is the loom to weave them by …
Developing these was actually an interesting exercise in Escherian tilings; you have an 8×8 (or 12×12) grid that’s tiled horizontally and vertically, and so you want to set it up so that the repeats tile nicely.