Warp 6

I decided to put on another warp that closely follows 1 of my other colour wraps after I was quite pleased with my last one. Tried a variety of yarns and structures to get  different weights of fabric so they can be used for different types of garments. When I took these to my individual review these are the ones Jimmy said are good to go as finals I am currently weaving them this week with the warp stripes being repeated 3 times along the width. Its made of 2 warps - one rayon and one cotton/polyester over 8 shafts. They took me so long to measure out for final samples! Think the rayon one was about 4 hours and the other one was about 10 hours :o I used gutermann threads so that the colours matched my colour wraps and technical samples exactly so i now have an abundance of empty spools that Im not sure what to do with. Any ideas?

 This is just inlaying threads but its sort of how I was hoping the scribbling would of turned out think I will just stick to this technique as I know it works.

Warp 5

Well as you might be able to tell from the post-it notes on these samples I decided to keep track of which structures I was using as I am weaving. As even from cutting it off to bondawebbing it and putting it in my sketchbook I seem to forget and then have to work it out when trying to write my technical notes next to each one - much easier this way.

So I decided to go for it and do what my tutor suggested of following my colour wraps exactly. I must say I really enjoyed measuring this warp out even though it took me ages because I had to keep changing colour every couple of loops would take me the guts of a whole day I reckon if I decide to do this as a final sample.  Just tried out a few different structures to see which sat best with each other and which showed off the colours in the warp the best. The rayon is over 8 shafts and the cotton/floss I mixed together is on another 8 shafts. I was dying to try more of my other colour wraps as soon as I finished this one.

Also tried using the same colours in the weft as I had in the warp but it ended up looking a bit too bright and summery which wasn't what I was looking for.

Warp 2

 This draft was a broken curved twill that progressed 2 shafts each time it repeated. I was trying to create the wavey 'S' shapes in my drawing.

 I was also trying to mimic the opaque white sitting next to more transparent shades and have tried out a variety of yarns to achieve this. I thought the embroidery silk with the white floss worked best for this.

Here I have tried the embroidery silk and white floss in sections by themselves. I didnt realise how elastic the floss was till I took it off the loom and it drew right in Im undecided whether I like this or not.

 Here I tried to add in colour from one of my colour wraps I dont know if its too much though. I also tried reversing the pattern in sections to see if it would make it look like the 's' shapes are overlapped like in the drawing Im not sure how successful this has been :-/ I think the combination of these 2 is what caused a fellow weaver to describe this sample as 'groovy' oh dear! I think she has a point I think its possibly a bit too much going on.

I decided after this to try just a section of that palette in a smaller area I think this works a lot better.

Tried another palette this ones a bit more subtle as well hard to tell in the picture but its a mixture of pale almost white shades of green, yellow and mushroom colours. This and the last work best I think because the pattern can only be seen in section so it isn't overwhelming

 This was the same warp but I redrew it and added in a white rayon it was only over 4 shafts but the colour sequence changed each time which made it a bit more tricky I was trying to recreate one of my firework drawings.

It does look like lots of little explosions if you squint your eyes a bit. Looks sort of fireworkish at least but it doesnt look too much like my drawing unfortunately. Overall not happy with this one, meh, would probably like it more if it was in colour.