Trying to get comfortable with the shader nodes in blender I sometimes create random materials. I mostly post them on my mastodon account but I will test the waters here as well.

The basic idea for the shader is to get two weaves going at 90 degrees from each other. I used a voronoi, scaled down in one direction to make each bit long rather than round, with a low randomness to make each weave. Then pipe it into normal and displacement maps to get the texture out, and use a colour ramp to add the albedo and some light subsurface scattering. Tinkering with the bsdf is just me playing with slider, I didn’t have any real direction with those.

If this were going to be for a photoreal material this node set up would be an excellent base to start from, but it would take many more layers and details to use.

What do you think? Do you have any suggestions for materials for me to try?