Weave

Weave wasn't my first choice for supporting study but I ended up really enjoying it.
These ere the colour combinations and proportions I created using inspiration from previous drawings and the orange collage I posted before.
I chose a really simple combination for my warp because I thought I'd have more scope to create some interesting patterns in the weft.


 I documented this after I'd cut my weaving off. I liked how all the threads had stuck together making thick spaghetti-type strands.

 I was told in my tutorial that my threads wraps were really good and that i should focus on making some very sophisticated and refined samples. I tried this my keep things simple, using thin threads to keep a delicate looking pattern and following some of simple warp patterns as the weft.


Here I was just tried to see what I could produce in such a short amount of time. Apparently you wouldn't usually create independent shapes on a loom but I quite like it. The yarns are a lot chunkier than the others I'd been using as well so it has a lovely quilted feel to it.

 These two samples were again just trying out different techniques.

This one has one of the warp colours weaving in and out of the pattern to create a bold red line throughout the sample. I came up with the idea for this through some very basic collages, using stips cut out from magazines and playing around with compositions.



This one is using paper. I started this just to create some longer samples! But I think it really worked and created the opportunity to play around with much more complex patterns and textures, which is what I was hoping to do originally.