Not to hijack Deb's thread on progressive satin, I'm posting here instead.
In that thread, I wrote:
"Satin for me (the Swede) *always* means only one binding point per warp (or weft) per repeat. All sheds of a 5-end satin are 1 down, 4 up (or vice versa, of course); all sheds of a 6-end satin is 1 down, 5 up and so on. Then there are the interruption factors, of course (which rule leads to "no regular 6-end satin")."
There was a lot more interest on WeaveTech, but as pictures are more fiddly on WT, I thought I'd try to ask here, instead. On WT, Sara v T referred to several books, of which I only own Oelsner. By reading Oelsner (who does not mention the word "shaded"), I tried to make a "shaded satin" on 8 shafts. This is what I arrived at:
Did I understand the construction correctly?
And - should I find a piece of fabric looking like this:
how do I need to think to arrive at "4/4 satin"? How do I know it is not to be regarded as (for instance) a twill derivative ("4/4 twill, stepped 3"), or some sort of compound/combined structure?