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Description: This project mixes twills while keeping the whole thing to four shafts and a relatively short treadling repeat; complicated equipment and reams of PostIt™ notes aren’t required. A point twill threading weaves little diamonds when treadled as threaded – those diamonds play the part of the frost crystals in this pattern. By upgrading both threading and treadling to advancing point twill, those crystals dance across the cloth. Finally, threading pattern disruptions mimic the way that frost covers windows on a winter morning. Big blocks start in different places, run in different directions, and then crash into each other. Network twill butts against point twill to yield a curve, and skipped threading sequences make visual breaks. All the glory is in the threading; once that’s done, it’s a rhythmic mantra to carry the weaver through the window and onto a snowy landscape.