Jaquard

As I had created my designs in repeat, I decided to colour reduce my design in Digital Assistant and work on them within Jaquard Designer to create files ready to weave.
I chose to weave my Kingfisher and Bluebell designs, here are some snaps of them being woven:

Jacquard Weaving

I have had my first attempt at weaving designs using our Jacquard facility at university. I familiarised myself with software I have never used before (Jacquard Designer and Apos Digital Assistant) and used it to create a design from my paperwork. I felt that the first weave was such a success I proceeded to change the design and weave a second variation the next day.

Here are my results as they were created, the Jacquard in action:

'Weave' been busy!

Sorry, I apologise, no more bad weave puns, although they were looming. Ill stop, I imagine your all yarning.
Yes, completing my weave and therefore virtually all my practical work for year one created that out-burst of poor humour.

After a tiring but worthwhile month my weave is complete, all that remains is to cut and mount my final samples and make my finished piece, a corset. Its taken 6 metres but my weaves are ready and raring for some finishing touches.

And in a reminiscent farewell I wave goodbye to my loom (for now):

Get Weaving!

Well, its been a busy few weeks, what with making my warp. This was a new challenge and I had heard tell of the soul destroying process of making a warp from other students. I was eager to begin my weave so jumped at the chance to start my warp. Winding the yarns onto the warping mill was easy enough, even if it was dizzying at times. Winding the yarn onto the Loom was time consuming (with over 6 metres of yarn to wind and having decided to have a double warp it was bound to take time) but not incredibly trying. Threading the loom however was a different matter. Threading almost 200 needles in sequence was frustrating to say the least. And when the hard work was over, my warp broke several times, needing to be mended on various occasions.

Despite a few little hiccups I got into the swing of weave very easily and I'm currently enjoying producing my samples, here are some quick snaps of my progress so far:




'We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.' - Henry Ward Beecher.

Bradford Awards Nearing ...

A week today is the Bradford Textiles Society Awards ceremony. I must admit to being very excited at the prospect of meeting other Junior designers from all over the country. The occasion has arose for me to wear a dress! Something uncommon for me but I am eagerly awaiting the event and the formal chance to congratulate all fellow Derby Uni winners. Naturally you can expect some photos to emerge next weekend, so watch this space! And now I return to work on my final project of year one, Weave.

Year One, Semester One ...

The resulting Practical work from my first semester at University studing Textiles Design.

'Money doesn't grow on Trees' collection ...




'Lest we Forget' collection ...




'Don't forget the label' collection ...



During my first semester studying Textiles Design at Derby University Knit, Print and Weave were the topics of study. I gained a basic knowledge of these areas and learned skills which enabled me to create considered samples relating to the given topics. The best of my final samples for each area can be seen above, Here are some examples of the favourite parts of my work from semester one: