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.

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.

1st warp

Well thought I would update this is I haven't posted in a while. This is a warp I put on before Christmas for technical sampling. I've put on about 7 warps in total so far and have about 40 samples still got 2 weeks of sampling so thought I would start posting them to see if anyone has any thoughts on whats working and whats before I decide on final samples.

This is a wool and nylon warp to translate a drawing of dodgem lights. I quite like using these yarns as I like the combination of shiny/matt so have used similar things in a lot of my samples. The first 2 were whilst it was still on the loom - a swiss arm which are a delight to use and the others are after its been cut off.

In this sample the nylon in the warp was taut on the loom but has buckled once its been cut off. Although it doesn't translate the drawing I was looking at I quite like this effect and is definetly something which would work for other more organic drawings - so a happy mistake :)