I used to produce pictures with stitched drawings on transparent fabric (I still do) and a painting in the background. Then, the fabric was stretched in front of the painting at a distance.....
I am now re-thinking this way of going about it. Fabric wants to "wilt", to hang in pleats and folds, to go creased....I think, I like this process to happen also to the image that is being carried by "the fabric..."....the looser arrangement of all layers (and meaning carriers) seems more appropriate....