Weave/Construct Data Collection week 1

 

looking at people on buses and colour pallet based on floor/ grid rubbings

interesting floors and grids patterns to inspire my work

My first week in the weave area of construct for me has been great, as I have enjoyed using the handlooms, these are manual machines, made up of eight individual shafts, in order to use to weave with, using a vast range of yarns and materials. This enabled me to create different thicknesses to my samples and learn new techniques. At first the task in hand seemed to appear a little daunting, as there seemed to be a lot of working things out and maths involved (not one of my strongest areas) however, I adjusted to this and once worked out the sequences began to enjoy creating the individual designs, it appears to be straight forward and a more hands on approach out of all the areas I have worked in up to this point, to which I enjoy.

Weaving based on animals from the Manchester Museum however taken into consideration the patterns collected from grids.