As per the previous post, I decided to use the cotton warp left over from the ikat workshop. I also found another black cotton warp from a previous project of the same yarn type. What luck!
Then I got thinking, what about a double weave. I delibrated between a double weave where I can form folds on the upper layer and possibly with a twill weave structure and a plain weave on the bottom layer or this interlocking structure as per the diagram below. (from the book on Doubleweave by Ursina Ann-Grishott)
Since they were already 2 separate warps, I wound them onto 2 beams. This will also give me the flexibility of re-threading and trying out something else if I did not want to keep with this idea.
The book also has a very good explanation of how the threading and treadling works:
I had cut the ikat warp in half and used the 2 parts to create a contrast at the vertical intersection and to make it a wider piece.
The ikat warp is slightly wider and will slightly extend beyond the black layer. For both layers, the weft will be the same black cotton. This is reminiscent of the texture of the canvase in the image.
I would have liked to at least started weaving to see if what I envisaged would work, but this is as far as I got.......
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