My final collection..

Here are my final collection of six samples based around both Guy Rose and Wallace and Sewell.
A final choice of a plain weave and twill structure was the decision I made for my collection, I am very pleased with the outcome of my samples, and how they look after being photographed.
The final context of a scarf range for my brief fits in perfectly with how the samples look, now that they have been cut off the loom, washed and pressed I can really see them being a perfect fit for this context. To finilise this brief I have mounted each sample onto an A3 piece of ticket card to allow the samples full exposure.

Below is a picture of my three final samples, these are my chosen three samples that I will be presenting to Wallace and Sewell as what would be a part of my scarf collection.

 

The two images below are two different collections by Wallace and Sewell themselves, they are the two designs that I studied very closely when it came to designing my own work, I looked at both the colour and pattern structure of the two scarfs as insperation for my own.

 

 

The picture below is my first attempt of a scarf for my own collection inspired by both Wallace and Sewell and Guy Rose. I am very happy with how my final piece looks, but if I had the chance to do this again then I would consider trying a different style of a scarf or to try and add in a border across the bottom of the material. 

 

Development and my sketch book..

After completing my final samples, narrowing down my development work was one of the last finishing stages, earlier on in the project I had created some pieces of work inside my sketch book that had helped me to design my first few samples, by looking at these pieces of work I was able to work out yarn and colour choices for my designs, but most importantly proportion and composition plans.
Below are two of my designs that I have worked on at this later stage in my project, using my artist picture/painting, with my own colour pallet and drawing work, I chopped each piece up and arranged them in a way that could run alongside my final weaving samples. These arrangement of work have allowed me to bring my brief to a positive end.

Weave week two..

After going to London and visiting the Wallace and Sewell studio I was bursting with excitement to get this final week of weave underway. After looking very closely at there proportion, composition and colour work I had so many more ideas to design and create the best three final samples for my scarf collection.

I decided that I was going to stick to the same two structures throughout this brief, I made that decision because the colour pallet of my work along with my development work fitted in with my work all really well, the plain weave symbolising a solid structure, the idea that a fabric was starting to be woven and becoming a material, and the twill because I saw the idea of movement behind the pattern, this linking in very closely with my artsist research work inparticular. 

Below are my three final samples from my collection.

 

 

A trip to the Wallce and Sewell studio in London..

This weekend I decided I was going to take a trip down to London and explore the famous Wallace and Sewell studio, as I missed the opportunity the first time around, I felt it was vital that I had a chance to go. The initial idea of the trip was to flick through the fabulous work inside the shop and gain more knowledge about both the background history of the designer and to try and find out about both present and future projects that they are working on.
Something I was very intrigued to know about the company is where they get there inspiration from, to find out they look at artists and day to day life experiences to get there own inspiration gave me a lot of encouragement for my own work, A look out to aim high and believe I can achieve anything I want too just as they have.

I was very happy with how my visit went as it was extremely successful. I gained more knowledge about the company than I ever imagined I was going too,
I came away bursting with excitement to carry my project on and fully inspired for not only the Wallace and Sewell live brief but future weaving challenges and projects too, including the other part of my location unit.
I had such an in depth experience of the designers work, and feel very lucky that I was able to have an opportunity like this one.

 

This trip also gave me a chance to illustrate and build up a network with a brilliant career and development resource and a practise with a professional textile context.

Inside the Wallace and sewell studio/shop, this space is also classed as there head office and where all the initial ideas, meetings, insperation and sorting of plans gets discussed.

 

Weave week one..

For this project we were on a very tight sceduale only two weeks to design and create a collection of samples was going to be hard, but a challange that would be worth it, for this second unit of work

I had the chance to be the first student to go on a brand new electronic floor loom.

After taking a few hours out to figure out how to use the loom, and how to input structures. I started of by inputting a plain weave structure and seeing how this looked using my yarns in the weft and relating the proportions and compositions back to my drawing and development work.

As I had only ever been on a table top loom, an electronic loom was something completely different to me, this gave me an opportunity to try something knew, patterns that would take a long time on a table top would almost take half the time on this brand new loom.

After playing around with plain weave and my colour pallet on tester samples of my warp, I decided to try input a second structure, one that I had never tried before, (the twill.)

This week I was able to create two very different samples, using both the structures I had progerammed into the loom, one mostly plain weave with three yellow lines of twill weave, and the other a whole sample of blue and green twill, both following the same development drawings, with the same input but two different outputs. A slow start to the week ended with a bunch of ideas and lots of insperation of what I was going to do for the final/second week of my Wallace and Sewell brief.

Proportion and composition of my colour choice..

As the final painting I chose for my project was the Guy Rose poppy field painting, the main colours I will use for my project will be red, a veriety of different shades of green and blue, a little bit of yellow and black, (the last three colours I will only use in some areas of my samples) I will use my colours wisely so that they link in with both the Wallace and Sewell work and the Guy Rose's 'Poppy Field' painting.  



 

The two images below are two examples from my development and sketch book work, by creating my own kind of painted up pieces and mark making pages, chopping them up and rearranging them it helps me a lot later on when it comes to weaving my samples, this way I have something to look back on, that can help me with what kinds of yarn to use, what colours of yarn to use and what kind of structure would be subitiable for both an in particular weave or section of a weaving sample, this way I will have a final collection of samples that have each been planned and thought about individually, that have a background of development work to go along side the samples.

 

 

                                 

My warp choices..

The original piece of fabric that I chose by Wallace and Sewell was from one of there scarf collections, because of this choice and the artists that I had looked up, I would like to make my personal final collection a scarf based project too so everything shows a clear link.  
The final choice of yarns for my warp was going to be all in 2/16s cotton, the measurements will be spread across 10 inches and 6 yards long, I will have three inches of red cotton to start me off followed by two inches of Slate blue (navy), one inch of Jade green, an inch of red, an inch of the slate blue (navy), half an inch of the olive and jade green and finishing off with an inch of red again.
My warp will be designed in blocks of colour as will my weft.
The picture here below is a yarn wrapping of my warp plan. (The reason why I have a large yarn wrapping and much smaller one is because the original navy that I was going to use wasnt a 2/16s cotton, and this was a vital instruction for the Wallace and Sewell brief.)  

Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne is another artist that I have also done some research on, the reason for this choice of artist was not only because he came up as I was looking up Guy Rose and his style of painting, but my tutor also mentioned him in a tutorial during this second week of my project.
Both artists are very different in the way they create there practice, but similar in other ways, both male artists that specilise in fine art and painting, but different by how there work looks on paper, with an amazing eye for colour Paul Cezanne's work is known around the world and really stands out from so many.
The reason I have chose to look at both of these artists for my project was because they both use similar colour pallets that have really inspired me for my own brief.
I havnt only been inspired by there colour pallet for my project but I found there textured way of working and mark making very interesting too as I could bring these ideas into my own project by my drawing work and the choice of yarns that I decide to use, I thought a mohair type of yarn would be a perfect example of this to create similar kinds of pattern and structure, with fuzzyness and texture so that all of my work can link together.  

Guy Rose

The artist I found to base my project around the Wallace and Sewell collection was a fine artist specialising in painting work called Guy Rose, I chose one of his panitings called 'Poppy Field.'

The reason why I chose 'Guy Rose' was because I loved his unique style of very free and loose vibrant colour style painted pieces. He uses both harsh define marks along with the complete oposite of loose and very washy tones. I chose this in particular painting as I felt it would fit in perfectly with the Wallace and Sewell brief as not only are the colours both bright and vibrant but this certain piece of work can be broken down into blocks of colour just as the Wallace and Sewell designs are made up of both stripes and blocks. This is the kind of style that I want to create when it comes to my sampling work.

 

Another painting of his that I also looked very closely at was one called 'Along the brook' this painting was a complete extravaganza of green shades and tones, something very different to the first painting of his that I looked at but as green is a big part of my colour pallet for the Wallace and Sewell brief, I used this painting to unpick the green tones with the idea of creating a one colour plan for a sample or two for this range, or considering just using a section of this colour pallet for a sample.

The start of my live project.. Wallace and Sewell..

To kick start my live brief, I chose a peice of fabric by one of the Wallace&Sewell fashion ranges,from a scarf collection. A peice of woven fabric with so many amazing qualities and created with all my favourite colours, that in a sence could be used for both interior and fashion purposes, I decided on this particular piece because I loved there choice of colour and composition. After I had a clear decision of what context I was going to base my project on I mixed up the perfect colour Pallet and began to look into what colours and type of yarn that I could use for both my warp and my weft.
After the hard desisisons were made and everything was unpicked as the starting point I then went away and began some thourough research on what artists I could combine in with my work to make the perfect link.

 

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