Designing...

I'm trying to make a very colorful design, using 11 wefts but I don't know if this is realistic.
The teletubies weaving in which i used 7 wefts turned out well. There are still some technical problems with the loom, some hooks don't perform well. I skipped some hooks but apparently not enough.

This is what the design looks like, it is one part of four matching pieces. But first see how this one turns out. These are the weft colours i selected:

The warp is black as their is enough left on the loom.

Growing Teletubbies

I first tried to weave the samples with the same colours and the extra weft, it was better but not good enough. I suppose that the basic colours were no good. I used what i had at home... Never a good starting point! Me, as a teacher encouredge my students to go for the colour they want and not use only what happens to be on your shelfs. Buy or if it not for sale, dye your own colours. So i ordered a more bluer purple and a browner red.

I'm quite happy with the result now.

There is little contrast but this is also in the original photo and is part of the special atmosphere. I'm also pleased with the sparkel in his eye! Fasinating to see your design grow on the loom! (TC1) The weaving software (Arahweave) is also a dream to work with, this would be almost impossible to in photoshop although you only 
need a bitmap to controle the loom.

New work on the TC1

Inspired by the Lisio visit, I couldn't wait to get my own Jacquard working again. Warping, designing, making of a coloured drawing, assigning weavestructures...

I want to find out what can be done by using a white warp and three basic colours as weft, like in the time of the pointiists, early twenty century.

This is a test for the colourblending...