In March 2025 I was sampling an idea which involved two layers of cloth (doubleweave) sandwiching some free floating active warp threads inbetween areas of intergrated cloth where they were constrained. The experiments weren't really a success and I eventually ditched the floating warps and kept the intergrated cloth and created a nice shawl (now sold).
Having recently bought Stacey Harvey-Brown's excellent new book "Creative dimensions in weaving" I have returned to the subject with some fresh ideas.
This time rather than using floating threads I'm using a complete third layer of cloth in wool/silk, working with two plainweave cotton layers. In fact I'm using three separate differently coloured "third layers" positioned side by side at intevals across the warp as strips of cloth. These active layer strips change position from being either between the other layers, or on one side or the other of them.
In the positions of the strips, the cotton warp for the plain weave changes from 8/2 to 16/2 whilst maintaining the same sett so that the strip is slightly visible between the layers. When the strip moves to the outsideposition, the layers beneath are integrated.
The wool/silk 10/2 is going on a second beam and the 8/2 and 16/2 I am going to try on the same sectional beam as it's only a short warp now, about 3m. Hopefully I won't have too many problems!
Hard to explain, more explanatory images to follow.
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