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The Five Things
The shape or number of holes in the tablet, and the shed used.
Which of the holes contain warp threads.
The threading direction of the warp.
The turning pattern.
Tablets aligned (at same point in turning pattern) or not.
Notes:
You only need to know five things to describe the way a tablet-woven structure is produced. That's enough to cover both the way the tablets are set up, and the way they are manipulated to create a fabric. By "structure" I mean something like warp-twining, or double-face, or 3/1 twill. Making color patterns is another area, but even then the color patterns depend on the underlying structure.
I'm gong to go through each of the five in more detail.