Stitched double cloth continued….

I wrote last week about the most familiar version of stitched double cloth – where a single warp end from one of the two layers is woven in with one pick of the other layer, so tieing the two cloths together at that point.  There are other ways to achieve a...

Double cloth texture – matelasse

Last week, we talked about pique and how it is a tie-down weave.  Matelasse is very similar, but without the tie-downs, so that means you have 2 more shafts available for the pattern warp.  Historically, matelasse was a quilted cloth with wadding picks in a double...

Double cloth for texture

This is a wonderful field of discovery for different textures.  The areas I have focussed on so far are different setts, different yarn properties, different weave structures, different ratios. Today’s blog is a quick overview of how texture can be created...