Jacquard Samples

Tried out some jacquard samples a while ago using an old pointcarre file so these aren't the shapes and patterns I will be using in finals I was just testing out yarns and structures and also to see what they looked like dyed. As the warp on the jacquard loom is shared and is set up by the technician there has to be a warp on which will suit everyone - a white cotton. As most of my samples have dark backgrounds this doesnt really tie in with them so I had decided to dye them. I choose to use synthetic yarns in the weft so that hopefully the dye would work best on the natural cotton fibres and dye them more than my weft yarns.

 This pink nylon turned a purple shade and the multicoloured yarn just looked a bit darker after I had used the procion dye.

 I think the glitter black yarn has worked well and the blue nylon still looks quite bright and shiny.

the first two are procion dye and the last two are dyrect dye I prefer the one farthest left simply because its darker and makes the others look washed out in comparison.

Warp 7

Here I did another one following my one of my colour wraps but not matching the proportion exactly this time as I wanted to try some 'Colour and Weave' combinations to create little 'L' shapes from one of my drawings. I pulled 4 rayon threads through on every 4th shaft and a brown cotton through the rest this one was over 8 shafts.

I was told that although the structures could be used to stay away from this colour palette as it wasn't my typical colours and didnt tie in with my other samples. Or even keep the rayon colours and change the brown to a grey tone. I did choose it because it was a bit different from my other palettes but this obviously hasn't worked for me. No more jobbie colours for me!