Quote Originally Posted by figheadair View Post
Yes it's asymmetric but the warp and weft are the same. They look different because this a warp faced cloth in which the warp is more tightly woven resulting in the striped appearance.
Ah I wasn't using the words in the skilled and technical sense of the craftsman weaver - just in the 'it doesn't look the same' way of a fabric user rather than maker.

So is the term tightly woven describing a warp under tension, or one with more threads to the inch? I do have a lamentably simple table loom used for making scarves for Dickensian and earlier costume, but it was just a money making ploy in hard times.

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