This past week I made a few test with the fiber optic.
1. Using only FO with a diameter of .25mm I weaved a 1.5 cm section, below you can see how it looks.
this FO is quite flexible and on the next video you can see it lights up enough to be seen in the dark after being sanded with a rough grade sand paper.
however it lacks structure, the FO slips through the warp
2. Using FO with a diameter of .50mm alternated with a cotton strand (?) I weaved a 1.5 cm section below you can see how it looks.
this FO is much less flexible, but the combination with the cotton gives more structure. On the down side alternating the FO hides half of it, as you can see in the video.
this one lights up more, so its pretty much a trade off between flexibility and surface area (the more surface area the more light).
Conclusions:
- Using a thinner cotton strand for the warp and the weft will allow the FO to show more.
- Instead of alternating FO and Cotton, I’l do a double weft FO + Cottton.
- I will sand the FO before weaving it, its harder but gives better results.
- It only looks cool on the dark.