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 3

For this warp I tried to incorporate my colour wraps in the warp more, however, I only picked some of the colours I put on a light grey silk in a straight draw over 8 shaft and the orange and green stripes are over 4 shafts each. For the next warp I've to try following my colour wrap exactly as I am missing out the accurate colour proportions and tones in them. I did try to show the other colours in the weft though. 

I put the orange and green on a seperate beam and shafts so I could try 'scribbling' this was my first failed attempt at it. Im not sure what happened here but I think i loosened the beam off too much and pulled too much through and made it a bit loopy.

Here I gave it another attempt and made sure each of them weaved in each time. I found if I moved the warp too much either way though the base fabric would also move and become gappy. In the book I read about it it called this a supplementary warp Im not sure if I was to pull these threads through the heddles as well or if so should those shafts been lifted or not. Overall it was very tricky and time consuming and Im not too happy with the result if anyone has any tips or advice about scribbling it would be greatly appreciated.

Here I only moved the threads a little each way and it worked better but still not as free flowing and wavy as I would of hoped. Also was playing about with inlays here.

Tried a combination of twills one warp faced and one weft face to get the shiny orange rayon to appear like it is sitting on the surface to mimic another drawing quite like this and would work well for translating other drawings.

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 :)

Work In Progress Exhibition

Hello I was going to upload drawings and colour work over the xmas holidays but decided to wait until the our 'Work In Progress' exhibition so that I could take photos of a selection of them. 

Remember, remember...

Well this is the last lot of research photos that I'll post before I start putting up some of my colour work and drawings. Most of these were taken at guy fawkes/bonfire night there also there are a few from the Marymass fireworks as well. I love fireworks!

 this 1st one is me messing around with sparklers

 these look like dandelion seeds

Research Photos in Blackpool

I did plan to upload some colour work tonight however I'm having a few technical difficulties with the scanner in that I have absolutely no idea how to work it. So I have put up more research photos. This time its photos I took when I went a trip to Blackpool in September with my little brother. We had a great time that weekend and I managed to get some relevant photos as well.

see we did have fun :) shame I still couldn't get this turned round.

I did try turning it before I uploaded it but it didn't work. I need to find out how to work this thing.