Triple weave part 3

Sorting out the draft for this weave has been a challenge. The main difficulty has been weaving the middle strip of brown wool amongst the other layers without the weft getting interlocked with the warps and wefts of the outer strips and other layers. It took several failed attempts and some extensive rethreading of sections to final succeed. As a consequence it's not the neatest weaving I've ever done, but perhaps one of the more complex. 

The brown red and green strips of wool are thre separate cloths which move from above to between to below the two layers of cottons cloth (yellow and white) which also swap places and occassionally amalgamate.

To develop the draft, it became easier to work with the liftplan and the eventual key to success was to weave two successive picks for each wool strip in turn and using the liftplan to create an escape route for the shuttle ensuring that the wefts were always lying in a position where they were not disturbed by subsequent picks.



I have still to wash the sample which should produce some differential shrinkage and help to disguise the obvious threading error on the lefthand side. After so much fiddly rethreading I couldn't face trying to correct it and the purpose of this exercise was to get the draft to work rather than make something in particular.

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