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.

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:

cutting the warp from the loom...

This is always a great moment, the end of a warp, the cutting...

surprise, surprise, how shall it look? This is what came off the loom:foto's

'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.

Finished weaving!

Today I finished the multi-coloured weaving on the TC1. I'm leaving it on the loom.
Here is a picture.

and a close-up.

Work in progress

I used Arahpaint in the design process and Arahweave to do the
Jacquardconvertion.







This how it looks now, on 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...

The samples at the Jacquard loom in Lisio

You can see the results of the projects on picasaweb together with some photo's of the fondation. My own work can be seen here:



As  you can see are the colours different from the sample, this is because I changed weft rotation.