You know, I've thought of that, but not quite in the same context. Trouble being as your increase the size of your canvas layers using "full size"pieces of cloth, trying to shape a material that stiff becomes beyond difficult. It would take an interesting mold that could shape layers like that without the cloth folding and bunching; creating probably unpleasant looking textures/patterns etc. What would work though, is to cut the cloth into small pieces and then mixing it with the resin and then putting it into a mold and applying pressure. The way this whole thing started for me is that I was trying to find a supplier of Rag Micarta; I'd seen such a handle on a Greg Lightfoot folder. Basically it was made up of various pieces/textures/colours of cloth cut into small, irregular shapes and then saturated with a resin and obviously put into some sort of mold and pressure applied. REALLY neat looking. I recall there were blues, greys, reds, whites; some solid, some patterned etc all showing in a irregular pattern on the finished handle. Something like that would definitely work,
but it's something else that's on the back burner for me right now. I'm just too busy, although I did make some nice solid royal blue carta yesterday. There would be a learning curve there for me to figure out how to make a mold, and apply pressure etc. If you figure it out, be a nice guy and post how you did it here.
