The horizontal vertical intersecting of the two separate systems of thread is of great consequence for the formative side of weaving. The more clearly this original formation is preserved or stressed in the design, the stronger the weaving will be in those characteristics that set it apart from other techniques. Just as a sculptor of stone that contents itself to live within the limits of the stone nature is superior in formal quality to one that transgresses these limits, so also a weaving that exhibits the origin of the rectangular thread interlacing will be better than one which conceals its structure and tries, for instance, to resemble a painting. Acceptance of limitations, as a framework rather than a hindrance, is always proof of a productive mind.
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Though elaborations are usually thought to be an advanced stage of work, they are often expansions from basic concepts. Intricacy and complexity are not, to my mind, high developments. Simplicity rather, which is condensation, is the aim and the goal for which we should be heading. Simplicity is not simpleness but clarified vision- the reverse of the popular estimate. If you try to speak or write clearly, you are thought to lack profundity, while the impenetrable verbiage of today's writing on art, for instance, is respected for the very reason, I suspect, that is beyond understanding and therefore is believed to be too highly advanced for the unassuming reader's grasp. All this is to say that what was said about the basic weaves holds in general for the derivatives and the compound weaves, except that the original characteristics may be diluted by some additional ones that might counteract them.
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Beginnings are usually more interesting than elaborations and endings. Beginnings mean exploration, selection, development, a potent vitality not yet limited, not circumscribed by the tried and traditional. For those of us concerned in our work with the adventure of search, going back to the beginning is seeing ourselves mirrored in other's work, not in the result but in the process.

-Anni Albers, On Weaving