Tag: pics to picks
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Bamboo Project Complete
At last…I’ve finished the Pics to Picks project. I completed two scarves and dyed each a differerent shade of purple/violet. Very different from the loom look here. The bamboo is lovely, providing a ‘grab’ in the fabric which suits a wrapping scarf.
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Pics to Picks Confidence & Time
You may have noticed how most of my posts are up on the same day! This is because of extreme lack of time and lack of confidence. I’ve found this in others post’s too, which is a comfort. Anyway, how do you design from an image when loom weaving has so many restraints and restrictions…
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Pics to Picks – Print to Loom
Well here is the images of my bamboo experimentation with more to come. I’ve started with the sampling on the warp and will probably go with the fine bamboo weft which has a silky handle and soft ribbing effect. I don’t seem to be able to weave white successfully. I know it’s needed and we…
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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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Enjoying Images
Although I’ve decided to go with the bamboo image for my Pic to Picks weave challenge I’m still fiddling with all the other images that Meg gave me. The more I look, the more I see.Notice the blue image in the corner of this image. It was very interesting because it was on a curve…
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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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Pics to Picks – It’s a start
After receiving my design photos for Pics to Picks from Meg, I started having a play around, happily selecting from my new big box of prisma pencils grabbed at an Eckersley’s sale. They’ re so beautiful to use, I can feel the pencils gliding over the paper inside my heart. That sounds funny, but it’s…
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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…