#double cloth

[ihavethemangoes]

Double cloth pick up for class! It’s genuinely irritating how obnoxious this is to set up and weave because the result is SO pretty. I drafted this up for a different class last semester (which is also posted on my page) and I’m hoping to get at least two full dragons if not more.

[ihavethemangoes]

The full weaving in all its glory! I’ll probably finish off the ends properly and take nice pictures sometime later, but I’m currently very busy with finals and it’s kinda a pain to check out a sewing machine and photography equipment from my school when I have my own back home. It’s technically long enough that it could be a scarf but I’ll probably only use it for decoration. I love how much enthusiasm y’all have had for this project, it’s really made my year.

[emilykanetip]

Locating: learning new weaving processes

Throughout this unit I have been using a double cloth weave structure. This was a challenge from the very beginning of the project because I wanted a wide cloth using a high EPI yarn, thus making the warp and threading took me over twice as long as it would normally. However, I throughly enjoyed having two cloths to work with and I think that the outcomes are very interesting. Secondly, I have had the added new experience of using the Texel loom. Previously, using Scotweave to design my structures for the arm loom meant that I could really get a feel for what the finished cloth would look like before it was woven. At the beginning of the project I thought that not being able to use this software would be a hinderance, however, I now think that drawing out my double cloth structures by hand has forced me to look at the structure in a more detailed way and therefore giving me a better understanding of the technical information.

[emilykanetip]

Resolved samples from the Locating unit 

[emilykanetip]

[marjodelaine]

Tissage Jacquard

[marjodelaine]

Poupée tissée

[fabric-of-space-time]

Double Cloth

‘They are thought to be intricate, hard to grasp, open only to advanced students. To my mind they are simple to understand and can be handled by anyone with just common sense- which, I admit, sometimes seems rare. Double weaves are fabrics that have two seperate layers which can be locked at both sides, at one side, or within the fabric, at any number of places where the design asks for an exchange of top and bottom layers, usually of different colours.There are also triple weaves and quadruple weaves, and multiple-layered fabrics can be constructed, though they are rarely found.

Double weaves have a special nimbus about them for reasons not clear to me... In ancient Peru, double weaves in complicated designs were made, and triple weaves have been found, as well as a small quadruple piece. If a highly intelligent people with no written language, no graph paper, and no pencils could manage such inventions, we should be able- easily I hope- to repeat at least these structures.’

- Anni Albers, On Weaving, Wesleyan (1974)