Weaving

Week One

Moving from knit to weave has proven to be a big transition. Although weave is a slower process, I'm enjoying the difference in technique and the different qualities that can be produced.

I found translating my concept slightly difficult at first as weaving was a very new process to me, and I was unaware of which techniques appropriately reflected the designs in my sketchbook.

However I soon grasped the ability to create similar qualities that appear in my sketchbook onto a weave. In my first weave I practiced a technique called 'floats' with my subtle colour palette. The technique reflects the repetition of line and texture that I've been developing throughout the unit.

Lia Cook 'Childhood/ Big babies'

Researching contemporary weave designers guided me to develop my work further by supplying me with inspiration as to how weave can be an abstract process in itself. 

Lia Cook- "my current practice explores the sensuality of the woven image and the emotional response/ connection of touch of cloth"





                          

               Ismini Samanidou- 'Drawings and Weavings'

                                                                                                                                                   Similar use of mark making and translating linear qualities into a weave.