Weaving drafts have a reputation for looking like crossword puzzles. Tablet weaving's version deserves better publicity, because it only records two decisions per card. The drafts gallery holds 165 of them; this is how to read any of them.
Each card has four holes, and the draft tells you which hole takes which yarn — the color order around the card, in the direction of your labeling. The same card threaded the same colors in a different rotation gives a different band: the twist direction of every thread follows from which hole it sits in. The glossary's line for threading carries the whole mechanic: which way the threads pass through a card decides which way that card twists its threads. S-threaded or Z-threaded is the first letter of every draft's alphabet.
Everything else is turns: quarter-turn forward, quarter-turn back, held still. The draft writes the sequence — forward, back, held over the picks — and the sequence is the pattern. Turn every card the same direction and the band builds its own smooth structure; mix the sequence and the threads surfacing at each pick change places, which is where the figures live. The tablet sim animates exactly this: one pick of rotation, one step of the pattern, the net-twist counter keeping the books.
Open a draft in the gallery and it names four things: the cards and their colors, the threading direction per card (S or Z), the turning sequence per pick, and the repeat — how many picks before the pattern begins again. The band in your head assembles in that order: warp the cards per the threading, walk the sequence, repeat until the length planner's number runs out.
The Oseberg band's archivists read ten-card all-forward drafts the same way; the app reads them the same way a millennium on. Draft read, cards threaded — cut some string this week. — the bench crew
