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Welt and Pique weave Step-by-Step construction method

Pique Weave

Pique weaves are known as waved pique weaves. This weave design is a modification of the welt structure. In welt structure, simple horizontal lines appear on the surface but in pique weave design lines appear in the form of a wave and due to this reason these weaves are called waved pique.

To construct the design of pique weave we follow some steps which are as follows

First of we require two types of ends and picks to construct the pique weave design that is

plain ends and stitching ends

plain picks and wadded picks

We need a motif to construct the weave as given below

In this Motif, we used  12 weft yarns and 6 stitching warp

 

Now we make pique weave using this motif

STEP – 1

To calculate the repeat size of the weave. For this, we will decide the ratio of plain ends to stitching ends and face picks to wadded picks. Here we took

Plain ends: Stitching ends

2:     1

Face pick: Wadded pick

6:     2

So in our motif, we used 6 stitching ends

So as per the ratio 2: 1 we need 12 plain ends for 6 stitching

In the same way for 12 picks of motif, we need 4 wadded picks

So our repeat size will be

12+6 = 18 warp yarns

12+4 =16 weft yarns

Now draw a graph of  18 x 16 as given below

STEP – 2

Now we fill the plain ends (P) with a plain weave that is all the plain ends are filled with plain weave 1 up 1 down weave as shown below

Stitching ends and wadded picks are left blank

STEP-  3

In this step, we fill the design of the motif in the weave  this design we will fill in only stitching ends

As shown below

STEP – 4

In this step, we will fill the wadded picks.  We will fill the wadded picks where they intersect with plain ends only and where the wadded pick intersect with the stitching end that place will be left blank. As shown in the figure below