piqué are usually plain face with a second warp more heavily tensioned. This stitches the plain warp at pre-determined intervals.

front of cloth

back of cloth

The cloth on the left shows the face of the cloth and on the right shows the filling on the back, but afterwards this seemed to be far more the interesting side. This piqué has a plain weave face and the stitching threads can be independently lifted to form a diamond pattern. These warp threads are on a separate beam to be able to manipulate the tension separately and increase the 3d effect.

Often piqué is a very fine quality used in women’s wear. This hand-woven sample was made using much thicker yarns than usually form a piqué.

The two diagrams show a piqué with filling and without filling. For filling by lifting all the face ends up and leaving all the stitching ends down a space is created to insert a more voluminous weft.

In this sample the piqué is used with much woolier yarns. A filling has been inserted to accentuate the undulating

effect. Once again much chunkier yarns have been used than in the usual fine white piqué materials.