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.

Stimulation...

The exhibition of Craigie Horsfield who showed foto's woven in jacvquard on big scale were very impressive... i felt my fingers itching.
Time to go back to the loom! The black warp that was beamed up this summer ...  i treated through hedles and reed. Further the designing could start.

This is the picture i started with. It was taken by my son, the Telletubby collection of my friend (or part of it). He used some speciale filter to create it.
I reduced colours till 40 were left and now i'm looking for matching colours by making colour samplings. I'm using  6 weft colours in a double weave construction. The present results are nice but not sufficient... have a look:

'reflections', my new work

Encouraged by the many possitive reactions on my previous work on fb, I imediatly have started a next project. The inspiration comes from a series of photo's from glasstills in our bathroom. I picked this photo:

I used Arahpaint, a open source software (!) running on Linux to adjust the photo to a more abstract design, result

You can see that it is a detail, enlarged en redused in colours...

This image, I brought in to Arahweave and assigned weave structures to. In total there are 18 different colours in the image, this means 12 different weave structures in jacquard weaving.

Again I will do the shadings with 3 colours: black, gray and green.

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...