Ordinary Honeycomb Design (10x10,8x8,10x8) || OriginStudio HD

Honeycomb weave: The term is applied to weaves which resemble honeycomb cells. The cellular formations appear square in the cloth. They are formed by some ends and picks interlacing tighter than others and there fore developing a higher tension. Usually single cloths made by progressively lengthening and shortening both warp and weft floats to form ridges and hollows on a square pattern, to give a cellular appearance. Sometimes called waffle or waffle pique. There are two types of honeycomb weave, such as - ordinary honeycomb and brighton honeycomb. Ordinary Honeycomb: Main features: The main features of ordinary honeycomb are as follows • The characteristic features of this weave are alternate raised and sunk diamond shaped areas which give the effect of a honeycomb. • Both sides of the fabric look the same and the surface of the fabric is rough. • It has long floats of warp and weft yarns.212 • In the repeat size the number of ends and picks may be equal or unequal and multiple of two. • In the larger repeat size, a double row of binding has been constructed by using a 1/1/1/∞t will weave at first stage, so that a firmer structure will be produced. • The long floats in the centre of the diamonds are not equal, and if the fabric is being produced with a square sett, this can be detrimental to the appearance of the cloth as they will produce a rectangular pattern instead of a square one. Two methods are available for improving the appearance when this occurs: adjust either the sett or the weave. • When equal floats are required in the construction, it is necessary to construct a honeycomb in which the shorter of the two long floats is the same as the required float length in the final design. For example, the original 10 ends x 10 picks honeycomb with the first end having a float of seven. The two indicated centre ends are removed to give the final design on 8 ends x 10 picks, with equal longest floats of seven in both the warp and weft directions. Similarly the two indicated centre picks are removed to give the final design on 10 ends x 8 picks, with equal longest floats of seven in both the warp and weft directions. • Pointed drafting system is normally used to produce this weave. The stages of constructing an ordinary honeycomb weave are as follows: 1/∞ Z twill starting in the bottom left-hand corner, then a similar one running in the opposite direction and starting one square in or one square down from the top left-hand corner, so that there will be a clean intersection of the twill lines, as at first stage; • In one of the two diamonds produced, leave a row of stitching points and then lift the remainder of the diamond solid. This is the final weave. End uses: This weave particularly suitable for hand towels, glass cloths, dispensed roller towels and bath mats, where moisture absorption properties are particularly desired, but in similar coarse cotton qualities it is also used for quilts and soft furnishings, and in finer qualities for sh