Double weave

These double-woven fabrics had separate warps of wool and silk yarn and were woven by Alexander Morton & Co. Voysey and others. Contemporary couture designers use true double cloth to make self-lined or reversible coats and jackets by using hand-finishing techniques such as separating the two layers at the hem and turning the raw edges under.

These fabrics have two right sides or faces and no wrong side, and include most blankets, satin ribbons, and interlinings. Double weaving is an ancient technique. Double cloth or double weave (also doublecloth, double-cloth) is a type of woven textile in which two or more sets of warps and one or more sets of weft or filling yarns are interconnected to form a two-layered cloth.

Surviving examples from the Paracas culture of Peru have been dated to before AD 700. Modern applications of double cloth include haute couture coats, blankets, furnishing fabrics, and some brocades. Double cloth textiles are a characteristic artifact of Pre-Columbian Peru, where they were woven of cotton and alpaca yarns in various combinations In Medieval England, double weaves called compound weft-faced twills featured weft or filling yarns in multiple colors, with the design completely covering the face warp yarns and the unused colors for any particular section woven into a binding warp on the reverse side. In early 19th century America, double cloth wool and cotton woven coverlets were made by professional weavers from wool that was spun (and often dyed) at home and then delivered to a local weaver who made up the coverlet. In the later 19th century, craftsman and designer William Morris offered wool and silk double cloth fabrics for furnishing through his firm Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (later Morris & Co.).

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The movement of threads between the layers allows complex patterns and surface textures to be created. In contemporary textile manufacturing Double-faced fabrics are a form of double cloth made of one warp and two sets of wefts, or (less often) two warps and one weft.