Textiles World: Week 6

This last week in the textile world construct I have been focussing on completing my weave samples on the different types of looms and cutting these off and steaming/heatpressing them if needed. I am also continuing with my sketchbook development work until deadline so that I can add these pieces in and show the relationship between these and my imagery.

 

An example of some of my weave samples:

 

Overall, looking through all of my weaving samples now that they are off the loom, im very happy with them. Although due to the different colours/textures of the warps on the different looms the colours do not all relate to my particular colour palette, I still really like the lines and techniques I have used in each piece and im some cases like the first one shown here I do like the different colours. Due to time constraints and the thin qualities of my choice of yarn for the weft of each piece my samples are all quite small in size, however I don't think for sampling this matters as there is still enough weaving to see the differnt patterns and lines in the weave itself. One of my favourite samples is the second one displayed here which i used floristry wire in as I did with some of my knitting. I really like the way in which it is maliable and can shaped when moved. I think all the pieces portray and relate to my photographs, drawings and research in some way due to their lines and architectural theme.

 

Textiles World: Week 5

 

This week in weave I have been continuing roating on different looms within the weave workshop weaving with the different techniques given to us in relation to my drawing, photography and research within my sketchbook and I'm happy with the way it is going so far. I have also been developing my sketchbook much further to show the thought process and relationships I am making in my head between my imagery, previous knit samples, colour and  yarns. I think that this will be something I will be continuing with up until the very end of this unit of work as it helps so much with my thinking and developing.

 

 

Textiles World: Week 4 Weave

This week I have started my second roation of the Construct world- Weave. In order to get ideas abouut composition, colour and line in my weaving I began by making a variety of compositions in my sketchbook using my own drawings and photographs along with contgextual research and snippings of my colour palette and mood board.

 

Task Three: Colour Interpretation and Compositions.

 

Here are a few examples of these compositons focussing on colour, form, line, shape, marks and texture. I think these will be extrememely useful in starting my weave to get ideas of the colour composition texture and types of yarn I want to use. I think to make these more succesful I could do more later on next week or the week after using scanned in imagery of my knit/weave samples to show the relationships I have made between my photographs/drawings/research into these pieces.

Research: Collapse Weave Anne Field.

This book my Anne Field really inspired me through its structure and composition and use of colour and negative space within the weave. The unusual weaving techniques and loose structure seen in this image is something I found rerally interesting and would like to relate my own weaving samples too, taking careful consideration over composition and colour and making use of different yarns to create different lines/marks.
 

Textiles World Week 2

This week in my textiles world : construct (knit rotation) I have been focussing on getting together a colour palette from my images and drawings and also getting more contextual research to inspire my knit samples and weave later on. I think that getting this colour palette is really important in any project, as it gives a focus and constraint in a way to the project, rather than the work being hundreds of different colours and shades. 

Task One: Mood Board.

To get an idea of colour, line, surface and texture i put a mood board together using a few of my favourite image relating to how I would like to develop my knit work. This task has definitely helped me to realise that my knit should be focussed on composition and making lines/squares within the knit itself using colour and texture to represent the lines, structure and architecture in most of my drawings and photography.

Task Two: Colour Palette. 

As a development from my mood board, I was then asked to use parts of this to make interesting compositions with a variety of colours/shades in which i then painted out into squares. I also added a few bits of yarn in some places which i thought matched some of the colours in these, however i think that i should have thought more about the texture and quality of the wool and wether it would represent what i would like in my knitting and weaving. For example wool is quite fluffy and course, so probably won't represent the clean lines of the architectural drawings/photographs I will be working from.

From these compositions and painted colours i then painted out a number of squares of colour to show the kind of colours I  will be working with in my construct project. This will be a great reference when choosing yarns to knit or weave with along with my mood board, drawings and photographs, and should ensure that my colours aren't all over the place within this project. 

Textiles world: construct.

After a meeting and review with tutors regarding the drawings I have been doing in response to the 16 chance cards and my own photographs in these first few weeks of the course, we agreed that the textiles world I will be most suited too is construct- knit and weave. I have always been very interested and intrigued with knit and weave as practices within Textiles, and i think that my drawings show this, through the use of lines, colour, structure and repetition within them. 

First Rotation: Knit.

As we have been split into two groups within construct, my fist 3 weeks will be spent on Knit. although i have done a bit of knitting by both hand and domestic machine before at Art Foundation level, I'm looking forward to refreshing and updating my skills within knit and learning many more techniques and experimenting with these for my origins unit of work. 

This first week we have been focussing on getting familiar with the basics of knitting and learning a few techniques such as casting on, plain knit, tension stripes and knitting with two yarns. These technical samples will be placed in a technical file alongside details of the technique, tension and yarn type so that i can remember how to do things in the future if i ever came back to knit. 

Initial Research.

Faster By Mark Fast.

This collection by Mark Fast really caught my eye when i saw it, as i really like the way in which the garments are structural and focussed on the form of the body. The tight fit of the knit makes it stretch over the body and i love the way the spaces in the knit allow us to see through the structure. In a way they are almost skeletal.  I think this work caught my eye because my drawings are very focussed on line and structure and mark making in medias like black ink, charcoal sticks, pencil and fine liner pen, so i think that my work within construct will be focussed on this idea of architecture, form and repeating line. Wether these will be focussed on Fashion I'm not entirely sure. 

Jessica Gore "Don't pull a loose thread."

Installation work like this has always interested me and inspired my work, the concept of this piece being accidental yet creating such an interesting piece is what makes it so appealing to me. In terms of structure again, the loops and the gaps alongside the tightly knitted sections work really well and i think the idea of having ladders/dropped stitches in my samples would work really well alongside my drawings and photographs as they could represent things like the glass windows against the concrete greys/blacks of the buildings. 

Initial knit techniques.

Here are a few examples of a few pieces of knit using different techniques I have done while learning some techniques this week. I think that these will work really well when I develop my work next week thinking more about colour and relating to my drawings and photographs I did at the start of my origins unit.