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This is inspired by the seersucker method that
Cathie posted some time
ago.
The 3 stripes are weighted separately,
with slight variations between them. The gold stripe had the lightest weight/tension.
I cranked
up the tension on the brown warp as high as I could.
This could have been woven on 2 shafts only, but I threaded the brown on 4 (to be able to test with twill, too) and the stripes on the next 4 (well - I might want twill there, too?)
There are more pictures and a longer tale on my blog.
In the left the last picture is a comparison: the left side has twill in the "flat" parts, the right is plain weave throughout. (See more pictures on my blog)
(ETA: don't know what happens to my text formatting... have tried to fix it, but it will not change. Well.)
Good going! I can definately see your differential shrinkage ! Your colors are really nice and the finishing is nice too. I thought it was really fun to see the puckers form as I wove. Now I'm off to your blog.
Nice, Kerstin! Whatever we want to call it (differential stripey tension shrinkage effects?), it's very interesting. I'm impressed that you got this much rippling without changing fibre content!
Did you use separate weighting for the ripply sections (as Cathie did), or do you have a second warp beam?
Ruth
You asked me what the secret was to the seersucker and that is , the very light tension on those area you want to pucker and regular to firm tension on those area to stay flat. I think it's really fun!
Ruth, in the end I used both the second beam and separate weights :-) I wound the stripes on the second beam for easier threading - meant to take them down for weaving. Until the light went on: unwind so that the stripe warps form loops, hang the (different) weights from the loops!
