Damask!
Last night I learned how to do damask and inlay weaving!
And
obviously I made Smaug over the Lonely Mountain in damask. (He's very
small and low-res. This is what happens when you try to weave delicate
images in damask using 1:3 and 3:1 twills.) It's so deceptively
simple...just adjacent blocks of opposing weave structure, and yet...you
can do such wonderful things with it. I'm already in love. Which is
good, considering the donkeyskin dresses I want to weave eventually.
Inlay I'm not as enamored of, but it's interesting structurally. You have a base of plain weave worked with a fine weft, and on top of that work a thicker secondary weft (or...more) that packs down tightly and covers the base fabric. Fascinating, but not what I want to do (unless I use it for brocaded accents in the donkeyskin fabrics...hmmmmm).
Inlay I'm not as enamored of, but it's interesting structurally. You have a base of plain weave worked with a fine weft, and on top of that work a thicker secondary weft (or...more) that packs down tightly and covers the base fabric. Fascinating, but not what I want to do (unless I use it for brocaded accents in the donkeyskin fabrics...hmmmmm).
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