Weaving Away.

This semester i have been studying/designing weave. This was boring to start with because i have no patience but in the end when we starting to come of the technical samples it became interesting as we could then move onto our creative samples. My inspiration was carried on from my knitwear project. I decided to design as if i wanted a fabric for a summer jacket... Chanel tweeds was my main inspiration along with Valentino.

Above Chanel inspiration....one of many

Below are samples of my weaves....

Here to create gaps i wedged paper inbetween then carried on weaving. Afterwards i then took the paper out and it created gaps that weren't weaved. This i did because i was thinking of designing a summer jacket and this would allow air to pass through to the body allowing a cool and light feel fabric.

(Above) Here i left the paper in but before i put the paper in i wrapped it with yarn. I also wrapped yarn around rope too adding a different effect and texture.