Help, Im in over my head with my supplemental warp project! I have 2 PW techniques going on here-collapsible weave with brushed mohair as a wide supplemental warp.

Here is my treadling tie up as in season 3 unit 8 for beginning supplemental warp:
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I am not liking how the mohair is weaving up in my structure of using star, star; square, square treading. I believe the tie-up and the structure is working as intended but I also have a merino in the mohair strip that is on shafts 1&2, while the mohair is on shafts 3&4. The 2/20 tussah silk non-shrinkers are in alternating 2" strips with the mohair/merino strips. The silks are on shafts 1&2.

The project is set at 12epi for the 2/20 tussah silk and the mohair is at 6epi as a supplemental warp. The merino is at 6epi in PW, within the mohair, on shafts 1&2.

A sample I did in PW, with the mohair and silk, was at 8epi to compromise for the needs of the mohair. I did my sample before I learned about supplemental warps. The silk is too open, and the mohair is slightly tight with the silk at 8ppi

Here is my sample:
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Here is the tie-up:
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I was striving for a balanced weave so I went with the 12epi for the silk to try and accommodate the open weave needed for the mohair, at 6epi. I am weaving at 12ppi with 2/20 tussah silk.

This is the result below. I think the merino is not needed within the mohair strips. I think it is keeping the mohair too cramped. I think I should take them out. I want to continue using the treadling for the stars and squares, alternating sets of pairs to get the mohair to float over and under 2 picks of silk to keep it open. I want the mohair to be a fluffy as can be after fulling.

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Should I pull out the merino?
Other suggestions?

I’m pulling out the merino to see what I think. I can always put it back in at this stage, lol

Ok, I took out the merino in the right 2 white stripes and fulled it. The mohair seemed to brush up just fine on either density. But the drape was much better with the 6epi of just mohair compared with the 6epi of mohair and 6epi of merino.

before fulling with the right and 2 stripes at 6epi, (merino pulled)
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After fulling and brushed, the bottom 2 strips are plain mohair:
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I believe it has better drape visually, and it feels drapier, for sure. 2 stripes on the right are only mohair.
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this is my latest iteration. I have changed my treadling and kept the merino. I now am weaving the supplemental mohair at 3 vertical floats.

The black warp are the mohair:
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The weave structure on the loom with the white mohair warp at 6epi and white merino 2/18 at 6epi. The weft is tussah silk 2/20 at 12epi:
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Finished after modest fulling. I might go another quick round. I will do the second one before I decide on fulling the first one again,.
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The supplemental warp was treadled with supplemental up treadles, 1, 2, 1, then supplemental down treadles 2, 1, 2.

Closeup after fulling of the supplemental warp at 6epi on heddles 3 & 4, with heddles 1 &2 with merino at 6epi.
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Very closeup after fulling:
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I will be making another set of 2, using a different color of brushed mohair and white silk. I might forgo the wool in the shrinking strips, just having the mohair as a supplemental warp at 6epi, and the silk at 15 epi. anyone have thoughts on this plan?

this is the completed set of scarfs:
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Cheryl, I took these to upstate NY for an outdoor wedding and it was perfect. I had 7 other collapsible weave scarfs too. The silk and mohair shown above could possibly use a bit more fulling but I was out of time. I wore the blue one for a bit outside and it was warm and lightweight. I also came up with a trick to wind mohair back to front onto the back beam from scratch. It might not work with all looms, but with the Toika countermarch loom my setup works great. I did need a beam manager as I handled the warp from the chains. I’ll try to post this process at another time.

Oh and I have another mohair and silk warp on the loom. But didn’t get them finished before the wedding. They were nice to have and not need to have scarf/shawls.

Just beautiful and so soft and drapy looking; I'll bet they feel just amazing to wear---I look forward to learning this technique! Thanks for the sharing and pics.

Hi there. I finally got the second set of supplemental warp off the loom. I address this second set of scarfs in the post 6 post up (above the picture with the 2 blue and white scarfs hanging in the doorway). As I mentioned, in that post I did not add merino in the wool bands, only the brushed mohair. The mohair is at 6 epi, while the silk is at 15epi, if I recall correctly. Here is the sample at the end of the weave, that I twisted fringe on one end and fulled.