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.