Micheal Kidner- Week Three..

My cotton warp is just the base of my designs. With a clear structure to my ideas, using only three main colours, I created a large collection of samples focusing on four structures; plain, satin, sateen and floating weaves. I quickly found that the satin and sateen structure were working best, and as I wasn’t dying this collection, I wanted to keep a clear theme that would run through the Practice unit. This is something that I could develop on into my next unit. I thought that tying in my ends would be the perfect example, as this was a newly developed skill that I really enjoyed putting into practice. As I began to weave and experiment with my designs, an unplanned pattern began to form. The tension may have been a bit too tight, and the weave pulled together to create what reminded me of a cactus form. This really interested me and was something that I decided to develop within the unit, as well as the more structured samples.