Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Jacquard Weave Project

Assignment 2, Year 2.
The brief for this project was to work in a group of six. To come up with a company name for the group and a logo. This was the logo, and the company 'Cutting Edge Weaving'.

We had to design fabrics from the visual research, for textiles for interiors for a couple, Kelly and Sid who have a seaside apartment. The couple wanted to reflect their love of the seaside in the textiles. They particularly want fabric for a heavy door curtain, a winter weight throw and for a felted log bag.
The following fabrics are what I designed for this brief.

All the fabrics were woven on a Jacquard loom, and then finished with various techniques to embellish and enhance the designs.

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Combination of shells and stones.










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Designs based on ropes of stones.



Shell designs






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Two jacquard samples, one on right was stuffed, and one on left appliqued with additional motifs.








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Sample on left based on driftwood.

Finished with stuffling the weaving with thick wool.

Sample on right based on seashells and finished with drawn thread embroidery techniques.

Both samples have an inkle braid accompanying them, which could be used as a trim.

Architectural Plant forms




This assignment was to do postive and negative studies of architectural plant forms, which were then translated into hand and machine weaving. The hand weaving was done on a 24 shaft power loom and the machine weaving on an industrial Jacquard machine, with the design work done on the computer.


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Positive and negative studies of Acanthus leaves.


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Studies of Magnolia grandiflora.










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Negative studies.

Acanthus spinousa






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Two studies of Corylus avellana contorta.







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Detailed pencil drawing of cheese plant




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Inspiration for quite a bit of this project.

Detail of tree fern leaf.


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Fern weaving.
Sample on right using mohair yarn and ended up being three dimensional.








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Samples inspired by the fern leaves






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Two samples woven the same, but sample on right finished by hot washing to felt the wool yarns used. Resultant fabric is much more textured.






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Two samples woven on dobby loom. Sample on left woven with two different types yarns and then dyed after finishing give two tone effect.




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Two pieces of weaving on dobby loom. Sample on right finished with drawn thread embroidery techniques.
sample on left, weft threads cut to form tufts.

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Jacquard weaving in double cloth.

Finished using drawn thread embroidery techniques.





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Jacquard weaving, double cloth, finished by cutting back top layer of background

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About Me

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I started university later in life than most of my collegues, being a mature student. I have gained a huge amount from my BA, and I am now furthering my knowledge and experience with engagement on MA ADAPT course which I started in January 2010. Some of my BA work is on this blog, along with other textiles and a commission connected with Lace. I am also teaching lace with a class held weekly in Nottingham. Other weekend courses to follow and talks in areas of lace history.