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 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 4

Here I tried to recreate the wavy warp stripes that I had accidentally-on-purpose created in my first warp whilst combining it with shadow effect. Shadow effect is quite simple to create by offsetting the straight draft a couple of shafts each time u pull through the next repeat but i think it can be quite effective.

I tried a variety of twills for the shadow effect and a few different twills and satins in the nylon warp not sure which combination is my favourite yet. This nylon was trickier in the warp as it was a floss nylon so kept fluffing up - the last one had been spun slightly - but I just had to make sure I didn't beat down too hard or too much and with a bit of perseverance it worked.