Drawing workshop and dying yarn
- Summer Hope
- Jan 18, 2018
- 2 min read
In Monday's drawing session, this was about how to turn a drawing into a weave, we were told to think about making the drawing from the building and to make the weave from the drawing, this gave a clearer explanation to how to link buildings to weave, this specific process is what gets you from A to B. Breaking the drawing down is also key to reflecting it into your weave as it simplifies the patterns and shapes to make it easier to see as a weave. In order to portray this in our sketchbooks physically, we made a weave with paper, I started off by doing this with textured paper inspired by my buildings and cutting this into strips and creating a plain weave within my sketchbook, however, when getting feedback from my tutor he told me to forget about the warp and just present the weft with my coloured/textured paper strips as when using the loom this is the part that we have control of. This technique will also be useful for future weaves as I can use these 'weft' collages as a guide to what sorts of yarns t use within my weave.
The left hand image within my sketchbook is made up of the same piece of textured paper I had made previous to this session in preparation, inspired by patterns of the Royal Arcade building, I feel that this cutting up into strips process creates an interesting image as it portrays the texture in a completely different aspect. Below this I have also created two lines of cut up squares of this paper to reflect upon the shapes within the modern building; riverside flats. Although the right hand weave wasn't done correctly, I still think it creates an interesting weave due to the contrast of plain and textured paper.
Moreover, following from this session I carried on experimenting with this technique with different papers:
I've used a mixture of coloured paper and created weft and weave images to develop this technique and to experiment with colour. I really like this technique as it's again quite abstract and simple but carries meaning and will give me a clear idea of where to start with my next weaves.
Lastly in this section, we were shown how to dye yarns, we were given a variety of different yarns, some being wool, polyester, silk etc., put into groups and had to work out which yarn needs which specific dye (same as dying yarn). This enabled me to realise that I can use whatever colours I'd like to use within my weaves, you don't just have to keep to the range that there is in the university. We were also told about some websites online that supply yarns which is also an interesting aspect as it gives you a more unique and individual weave style and colour scheme.
Dyed yarns:
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