The end of the Semester

After completing the weave rotation for this final semester I discovered that I really enjoyed weave and felt my artistic skills really developed in the hand loom samples.  I thought the samples were really creative and full of detail from the usage of different fabrics, yarn, string, beads and lace.

The colour palette I used was very interesting with very natural brown and crème colours and bright dark contrasting purples and blues. They’re not colours you would associate with lace but they worked really well and I was able to use really nice lace that worked well with the colours.

I wanted my samples to be really interesting and not just plain weaving, so I mixed certain weave patterns and also altered the weft loom by tying knots in the yarn breaking up the weft and the samples.

I want to specialise in weave because I have fun in creating the samples and want to learn more on the machines especially the Jacquard weave, as I only started to learn a few things in this rotation on the computer software called Jacquard designer.  I need more practise on it to get my samples just right by using the right weave techniques and the right kind of design suitable to develop into a woven fabric.

Below is a link to Flickr with some photos of my final weave samples:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/70067575@N03/