Heddle reeds

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This started as one of those "Can you make one of these?" projects at the request of my wife. This probably is the start of a work in progress (as in "if it works, there will be more sizes/patterns"), but this should work as a finished piece. If I have my terminology straight, the first reed is a 41-thread 5-dent heddle reed (really, it's a 5mm spacing), with 2mm dots, 34x1.5mm short slots and 100x1.5mm long slots, in a 225mm x 130mm x 3mm plate. The second plate is a 63-thread 7.5-dent reed, and includes edging. Higher dent heddles will happen as I figure out aspect ratios and what I can get away with for printing. The "heddle sticks" version is a modification of the solid plate that I thought up earlier today, but haven't printed to test yet. It should allow a mix of all the combinations of dots, short slots, and long slots that seemed useful, in any order, and can be set up symmetrically by flipping one side relative to the other. All of the sticks have half of a long slot on either side, and should (I hope) line up properly to let a group of them be racked in the rails. The provided rails are 230mm (similar to the plate version) and 300mm (about as long as I can fit in my printer) long, and have divots on each end to allow for a rubber band to keep the whole business together. Updates: After trying the first plate, I'm changing the holes (dots) from a 2mm hole to a 4mm x 2mm oval, as that seems to be easier to thread. I also made up a 63-thread 7.5-dent using the same size openings as in the first one.