creating new weave structures

my first twill design!

Well, I'm not sure they are brand new weave structures.  I do know that I've not seen them before and that they are not designs I'd want to weave or wear.  What's neat is that they are mine.

I've been learning about designing weave structures with Bonnie Inouye's  Exploring Multishaft Design. I put on a 5-yard warp and designed within the parameters she suggested.  I was afraid it was

second, with area of plain weave in twill fashion

going to be like workshops where you're handed a clump of clay or stack of paper and told to create whatever you want, and then your spiritual state is assessed through others' interpretation of your creation - that I balked at creating in the first place.   Oh, joy!  It wasn't like that at all! 

curved lines

Bonnie has a 16-shaft loom, and I have an 8-shaft loom.  I did grow frustrated that I wasn't able to explore all the avenues that were opening up to me.  I'm not sure that I designed a plait weave - the twill diagonals interrupt each other and go over and under each other, like braids,

does the design look plaited?

After the samples, I was very ready to weave something more than 6" x 6" and have a usable item afterward.  So I've got towels in a lofty and thick naturally colored (brown) organic cotton in waffle weave on the loom now.  No, not an original.  Sigh.