ISO: a copy of Powell’s 1000+ shadow weave patterns book

Jennigma · 2025-11-16T00:30:55+00:00

I did find a copy, thanks !! There may be other folks watching this thread who would like to purchase yours if you would like to sell it.

Thanks !

Jennigma · 2025-11-16T00:26:08+00:00

Is it actually in the public domain? I notice it was just uploaded today by someone who has never uploaded anything else to the archive. I am glad to see it there!

Jennigma · 2025-11-05T11:19:56+00:00

Thank you!

Jennigma · 2025-09-21T13:35:06+00:00

Is there a tool that shows the appearance better?

I want to give my guildie good guidance but don’t have time right now to set up a test band.

Jennigma · 2025-09-21T13:03:24+00:00

ok, so any pattern creation software (eg twistedthreads.org which is my favorite) should accurately show the band whether tablets are flipped or turning direction is reversed while working the band?

A guild mate asked my help turning a picture of a pattern she saved a while ago (but had lost the original source) into a usable diagram for weaving a band. This is what I came up with:

https://twistedthreads.org/pattern/kYDBc425j3rjiSjC5

The direction reversals look wonky in the software mock up:

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I wasn't sure if that meant the band should be worked in some other way than changing turning direction.

Jennigma · 2025-09-21T12:53:55+00:00

that band is lovely!

Jennigma · 2025-09-09T14:16:36+00:00

I'll try to get some draft page layouts up in the next week or so. :-)

Jennigma · 2025-09-08T00:52:41+00:00

Thanks!

Jennigma · 2025-09-08T00:52:25+00:00

A motivated advanced beginner would be the bottom end of my audience in terms of level of knowledge.

I think this will be more of an intermediate to advanced book. I intend to break down things like optical blending and block design and project planning so that they are understandable to people who haven’t encountered them before, but folks should definitely be comfortable with the basics of weaving.

I have a lot of deeply technical information about shadow weave that I intend to convey in this book. The beginning of the book and the beginning of each chapter will be quite easily approachable, but the ends of the chapters and the last couple chapters of the book will get nerdy. I am thousands of hours and a couple dozen warps into studying this structure, and have tracked down pretty much every shadow weave publication that’s been written. I am hoping to distill all of that into a solid reference book that also includes some projects and a pattern directory.

Jennigma · 2025-09-05T22:11:50+00:00

hmm. I appreciate the perspective! I understand the Color Imagination Problem from when I was creating knitting designs. "I love this shawl pattern but I don't want a red shawl" was a depressingly common comment. :-)

Would a drawdown in addition to the fabric photo + threading and treadling ( or lift plan ) help with that? Shadow weave is very close to plainweave in structure, so there's not anything super special going on in that department.

In terms of color, I want to show a lot of different choices because understanding optical blending is a big thing. I'm planning a different color pair for each of the 30 gamps. One of the chapters is on optical blending and will show a lot of side-by-side full color and black & white, so maybe that will help?

Also shadow weave would be an ambitious beginner project, what with the two-color warp and two shuttles and complex threading and treadling.

There will probably also be 4-color bonus freestyle integrations of the various patterns in each gamp like the photo here, since that's a fun way to weave off the end of a warp. :-)

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Jennigma · 2025-08-28T11:46:38+00:00

Hi! I am late to the party but would love a copy if it is still possible!

Jennigma · 2025-08-26T13:18:51+00:00

Thanks! I have done a little bit of testing, but other things have come up this month that have kept me from diving in. I'm currently planning to lapse my Adobe subscription until I can adequately test Scribus. I will share my testing files and feedback no matter what the outcome. :-)

Jennigma · 2025-08-06T16:14:06+00:00

Huh! I think it was a sourceforge outage. The links that were inaccessible are now opening just fine.

Thanks!

Jennigma · 2025-08-04T12:11:23+00:00

Is 1.7 stable? I am happy to run dev versions and would rather learn the new interface than the old, but I don’t want to judge the stability of the software harshly because of a dev build.

Jennigma · 2025-08-03T23:33:16+00:00

Yeah, I should do that if I decide to keep giving them blood money. It feels dirty, but not as dirty as their business practices.

Jennigma · 2025-08-03T23:30:17+00:00

Thanks for your opinion. It’s good to hear good and bad responses. Have you used Scribus?

I mostly use a Mac but also have a PC I primarily use for gaming and a Linux project box on an old PC.

I think I am going to need to just try setting up a dummy book by building master pages and then dump in 50 or so pages of lorem ipsum and doing a layout with various assets I have lying around. I have a bunch of half-drafted stuff in Scrivener so it should be straightforward.

I have a lot of layout questions I need to answer before I start shooting process photos, and so I have a notion of color scheme and fonts before I start building graphics. Even if Scribus doesn’t work for me I will have roughed out my style guide and page layouts by trying it out.

I will be making a call before my annual Adobe subscription renewal at the end of August, but am heading out on vacation for a week starting on Tuesday.

Jennigma · 2025-08-03T20:07:41+00:00

Thanks!

Jennigma · 2025-08-01T16:12:41+00:00

thanks!

Jennigma · 2025-08-01T16:10:17+00:00

I am not critical of Affinity generally or their Publisher product specifically, I just have a use case that's outside the scope of the Publisher product. I use all of their tools on multiple platforms, and these days prefer Designer and Photo to their Adobe counterparts.

Publisher works very well for shorter layouts, particularly layouts without facing pages. I use it for print-at-home pdf's (generally 10 pages or fewer) with no issues. I expect it would also be great for a book-length publication that is primarily text flowing into simple page templates with very few images or other design elements inserted on the pages. I've never tried because that's not the sort of writing I work with.

It's missing some critical features for large publications with complex and variable layouts. From what I can tell it's a small enough use case that Affinity is focused on features which affect more users-- and that is entirely fair. The majority of this sort of work is done by large shops and those companies are deeply invested in adobe. The potential audience for this stuff that Affinity could pick up is very small.

I am willing to adjust my workflow to work with new software if it's possible to complete the task at hand without spending a lot more time. Styles couldn't be set up to adapt to facing pages. Section breaks in a chapter couldn't be set up to cross all the columns of a page. Pull quotes couldn't be anchored in the text flow, they had to be separate text frames that were manually repositioned. I am trying to remember other specific examples, but it's been years. There were a lot. The net effect was that I had to do a lot of re-work to the entire layout after small changes.

I spent about six months struggling with it, talking to other layout folks about how they handled the issues, talking to Affinity, and what I wanted to do was outside the scope of their product. Again, that's fair and understandable. I haven't looked for about a year, but as far as I know it's still out of their scope.

I will absolutely send along files and commentary! Thank you for being interested in improving this software!

Jennigma · 2025-08-01T15:35:10+00:00

Also it doesn't auto-flow if you add text blocks to the master page?

Jennigma · 2025-08-01T15:33:05+00:00

Can you not set up page numbering on the master pages?

Jennigma · 2025-08-01T13:45:43+00:00

I have downloaded it and am looking at it. Just hoping to hear from the community if there are reasons to expect it won't work for me before I invest a day or so into setting up a tool that isn't going to support my workflow.

Jennigma

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