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Photo From: Sadelle - Album: Spinning and Weaving

Description: Draft of the pattern called Murphy's "Diaper" Weave No.5 which comes from the Davison book, pg. 115. The drawdown here does not show the tabbies woven in, but they would need to be woven, otherwise the cloth would have no integrity. Tie up for the tabbies is shafts 1 and 3 vs. shafts 2 and 4 and would be used alternately with each pattern pick. Ideally woven with warp and tabby yarn the same size and a thicker, soft pattern weft, such as wool. According to Marguerite Davison, this simple weave, originally intended for coarse linens, was dubbed by the Scandinavians as a "Poor Man's Damask". The Scots called this type of weave a "Diaber" weave, and Americans translated that to "Diaper". It falls in the overshot class of weaves as the ground cloth is woven of plain weave and the (structurally) supplementary pattern weft either floats on one surface or the other, or is tied into the cloth to form half-tones.

Murphy's diaper
Su Butler Uploaded: 11/15/2002 by Sadelle