Four Little Remnants

Some samples get a new life as lovely wall hangings. In addition to my bookmarks, these will also be on sale during MICA’s Annual Art Market.  December 9-12, 10am to 6pm in the Brown Center.

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Sample: Supplementary Weft

Suplementary weft: to add in weft separate from or in addition to the given weft. As you can see, in the weaving above I have alternately supplemented the weft of the tabby (far right), the actual weave structure, both simutaneously (the middle section), and in place of the weft (the bright green to the left [...]

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Sewing Test: Tiny Dress

For my costume design class, our first assignment was a sewing test, given to evaluate our skill and craft with patterns and sewing. The test was to complete a miniature version of a dress, and while mine isn’t perfect, I worked so hard to make it as perfect as my little heart could.

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Dimensional Weaving

These images are from a small sample I did for my weaving class in preparation for our final. Because I completed a full double cloth sampler last semester, this semester I was asked to focus on dimensional weaving, or the stuffing of woven pockets during the creation of the cloth. Double Cloth is a process [...]

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Color Blanket

Approximately 24″ x 24″ in cotton. Three hours of weaving. My weaving class this semester is Color and Pattern, so this piece of cloth was a begining technical exercise in dyeing and manipulating pattern (see my related post on dyeing and documenting skeins). I’m extremely pleased with my colors and the gradiation of the value [...]

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Sample Weaves

This post is unrelated to the assignment at hand, but I think it serves as a solid introduction to the blog (and makes a pretty colorful test post). Our woven imagery class set out to learn thirteen weaves (there being thirteen students in the class) so each loom housed one weave. We each wove one [...]

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