Category: Design
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Weave Juice
Although I’ve been busy doing non-textile things 🙁 I’m still in there gearing up for new design and teaching ideas in weave. A game using random weave ideas to build textile innovation by Ann Sutton (Ideas in Weaving – Sutton and Sheehan) has always inspired me (just as anything Ann Sutton has done) and I recently…
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Bamboo Textile Patterns for Print
Stylised bamboo images are well known in textiles and wallpaper. I found these and liked the incorporation of the bamboo ‘seams’ and leaves together. My image for pics to picks didn’t have the leaves but they offer another dimension to the patterning. I also experimented with a peg plan possibility. But my experiments didn’t go…
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Bamboo meets Ribbed Weave
Progessing with the Pics to Picks challenge I’ve managed to wind a long 9 metre warp onto my loom ready to test out some ideas and yarns in the weft. I know the warp is long (at least for me) and I promised myself that I wouldn’t put on long warps anymore because I get…
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Bamboo and Chairs?
The bamboo photo is the most ‘ordinary’ one to my thinking and presents the greatest challenge for exploring ideas for textiles. Trying to relax into enjoying.. perhaps impossibilities, unreasonable weaves and perspectives.Encouraged by Amanda, to develop weave structure based on the photos I’ve now started looking beyond the inital and superficial stripes implied in the…
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Weave Sensing in 2010
I’m in for Meg Nakagwa’s 2010 Weave Challenge.Above are the weave sense images I will be sending to another weaver, as yet undetermined. It doesn’t really matter why I choose these particular images as idea developers as the recipient will receive them in their own way based on their own living experiences….and how they relate…