Weave. Technical Block 3.

The past two weeks i’ve been doing Weave. I haven't done anything like weave before so I was excited and a little bit apprehensive as I didnt know what I thought of it, because it looks very technical and abit “faffy”. 

My first try at weaving.

At first is was just a few days of getting to grips with weaving and working out how the loom works.

I was asked to look at my drawings, wrappings and windings and colour schemes. This would help me work out what colour yarn and what kind of weave my work is headed to. 

After two afternoons on the loom I understood it, It was then time to try and work out the patterns that my tutor had given me to work on. 

I found weaving really therapeutic and calming. If you have a good playlist on your ipod you can really get carried away with it. My tune of choice of Respect by Erasure.

We were set a task to find samples of various different fabrics from different fabric shops around London. I went to Berwick Street and found a lovely fabric shop where they generously gave me eight different samples. With these small pieces of fabric we were asked to deconstruct the pieces and work out the weave they were created with. 


We were also asked to create windings to represent my weaves. This could work into the colour scheme, build or shape of the weave.

By the end of Weave I was really sad to finish it. It was my favorite block so far, I believe that my textile skills are maybe suited to Weave and a constructed textile design as appose to flat and pure design textiles.

I felt like my weave designs were less experimental and more of a traditional technique. 

However I liked my final weaves, I used the methods that were suggested and I created my own pattern by experimenting with lifting the shafts in many different orders.