
Triaxial Weaving
Isotropic Herringbone
It would be nice if there was a more isotropic versions of the "herringbone"
triaxial fabrics.
While there are simple isotropic fabrics that fit this description, they all
seem to do a terrible job of locking the fibres in place - a basic and
important feature of triaxial fabrics.
After considerable experimentation, probably the best approach I have found to
this so far is to construct a fabric made of multiple small patches of the
above fabric - with the weft travelling in different directions in the various
patches - as follows:

First herringbone triaxial weave (isotropic variant)
This technique produces rotational symmetry at considerable expense in terms
of translational symmetry - and several other desirable properties of the
fabric.
The fabric may look like a random mess, but it is composed of
tesselated identical hexagons, each of which is rotationally symmetric about
its centre point. You may be able to see the hexagonal pattern if you squint
at the fabric.
The size and shape of the patches could - in principle - be varied.
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