Fifth Week of Weave

My week in weave has been very eventful I created my own warp and dropped colour in randomly which worked better than I expected I now understand how much effort, patience and perseverance goes in threading and making a warp I  have a great appreciation for the weavers.

When making my warp it took me longer than expected almost two days I didn’t know how much you strain your body in weave.

I tried my hardest this week however I kept making mistakes I did my threading wrong which took me a whole day to correct.

I was surprised to see how I managed to produce my warp and thread it onto my loom.

The yearly meeting I felt was rather irrelevant this week the slide show didn’t help me or inspire me this week.

Fourth Week in Weave

                          Sources of Inspration                                     (Fig1)    

During my Fourth week in Weave It was very hard to be productive and produce my work, as I was ill during this week. I really pushed myself this week overcoming my illness and producing a good amount of work. During my weekly year meeting, it was helpful to find out that there was support up to three years after you graduate, which had, gave me some confidence that there will be some help when I graduate.

This week I was still considering my warp after Lesley suggested that I add a hint of colour to my warp I considered this and after playing with my yarn wraps I really liked this technique and decided to take it further.

One thing I am struggling with is the weaving terms and saying however i am sure in some time I will understand, however I am struggling so much with the maths my counting threads is terrible as I am dyslexic and find this aspect of weave challenging 

As you can see in (fig1) I enlarged my work to see it in a different light  it you can see the different  mark marking on the image all those faded marks would be great to add to my worp.

Third week of Weave

       

                                       (Fig 1)                                                               (Fig 2)

During my third week of weave, I was thinking in what way I could develop my work further, so I first looked at all my visual research and then made my colour palette from it,  at that point I did a lot of colour strips this really helped me to picture what my worp would look like I wanted my worp to be simple with splashes of vibrant colours popping out I collected beautiful bright silky cottons to add to my warp however less is more in my opinion (Fig2) 

I need to be selective of which colours I use I will consider this after creating some more wraps. This week had been more of a development week experimenting with yarns and colour. I struggled this week I need to have more confidence in my work when it comes to development.

Here is an example (Fig1) of my colour wraps I added a hint of red to see what it would look like I think it does pop out however I think I need to consider the yellow tone in my worp I may use creams and whites more neutral colours

Second week of Weave

                             (Fig 1)                          (Fig 2)                                         (Fig 3)

  

In (Fig1) one I wanted to view my images in a different light so I cut it up and weaving it back together this process really helped me to get more inspiration from my images.

In (Fig 2) is what you call a happy accident I tried to make my image look faded but it ripped and looked tacky in my opinion however after a group tutorial my peers said it worked quite well and expressed what I was,

During my second week of weave I struggled to develop from my drawing however after my group tutorial it was suggested to  me that I use two different sketch books.  I can now  look at the work I am going to develop this really helped me to move on with my project looking at my work in different ways thinking what more can I do.

The Small group tutorials are really helped me to become more confident when voicing my opinions now 
I feel more confident to express what I want to say as when I am in a large group I stumble on my words.

When considering how my sketchbook should be laid out, it was helpful to look at the second year student work it inspired me to look at using different processes when treating paper and thinking about my colour pallet and it was nice to see some of my tutor’s sketchbook.

Over all this week has helped me with development ideas, which I struggled with a lot in my last briefs and my communicating skills, I really enjoyed this week in looking forward to many more…