My 6'7" son wants me to make him a "realistic" bunny costume. Sigh. The body would be easy, but he's also skinny. The head will be a challenge. I can only hope that he will change his mind, as he did when he was 5!

To preserve the texture, you could use a thin cotton fabric instead of iron-on interfacing as the backing if you tacked the warp threads to it after you have pinned everything to the board. You'd probably need to put a strip of tape on the board under the backing fabric first so that you wouldn't catch the board cover in the tacking stitches.

After doing the weaving, unpin the piece, pick it up gently, and machine stitch around the outside to secure all the edges more firmly. If you wanted to cut the woven piece, you'd also have to machine stitch just inside the cutting line to prevent fraying.

Thanks to the Threads editors for the interesting inspiration!