Printing Lengths

After a day session learning how to print lengths earlier in the sermester, I was eager to use this newly found knowledge, hense focusing my entire project around printing lengths.
With a positives of my Kingfisher design ready, all that remained was to make 8 screens for this 8 colour print.
Printing two 3 metre lengths of my design took a number of days, but was an incredibly satisfying process, cant wait to do it all again next year!
Here are a few snaps of the lengths still on the table:

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:

Kingfisher repeat

After what seemed to be an age of painting and delicate photoshop work, my kingfisher design is finally in perfect repeat, and here he is!

Kingfishers

As my projects moves forwards and I consider the elements of nature I want to specifically focus on and study I focused on my surroundings and the places I had visited for inspiration. As I see the River Derwent almost every day on my journey to University, and enjoyed following it through Marlock on my walk, I decided that I wanted to paint an oak tree, as Derwent mean 'Valley thick with oaks'. Birds also fasinate me, so putting a bird into the tree seemed highly natural. I chose to study a kingfisher, as it is a bird I love but have never seen in the wild.

I looked to Morris for inspiration in my work, and sought to create a large scale repeat unit, reflecting my own obsession with nature, and the local nature which inspires me daily. I used unity and symmetry when designing, in an attempt to create a harmony within the design.