Summer & Winter is a "tied" weave. This class of weaves is called so because some of the warps act as "tie-downs" to keep the pattern wefts from forming "floats" that are too long over the surface of the cloth.
In this picture I've thrown a pattern weft without tie-down warps raised. You can see the long floats that are formed. This will not make a practical cloth; these floats would get caught and pull out of shape.
In this picture I've thrown a pattern weft without tie-down warps raised. You can see the long floats that are formed. This will not make a practical cloth; these floats would get caught and pull out of shape.
In this next photo, I've taken that "wrong" shot of weft back out, and thrown it again with tie-down warps raised correctly. The pattern weft still sits on top of the lighter ground weave, but it is held nicely in place by the tie-down warps.
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