Week 7

Designing for my second woven warp began last week. With a new focus to my work, i set about creating card templates as a basis for my next cloth. The new cloth will, once again be a double cloth, this time however i will be having one plain warp (white wool) and a second striped warp (variants of blue and yellow) under neath.

The idea came from the collage work i was working on last week. I found that i was being over powered by the colours and density in front of me, so i wanted to strip everything away and look at sections, similarly to when i was looking at Jim Stephenson and his photography.The found 1960's images worked for both the foreground and background. By cutting away at the shapes within the building and layering the left over paper on top of my collage work  was instantly left with something that held more composition and intrigue.

Cut paper work and overlay ideas.

By working to a relatively fast pace i was able to quickly arrive at decisions and generate a warp plan. The striped bottom cloth acts as the base to the fabric, the white wool top cloth will be the focus of the samples. working with blocks i plan to bring the striped cloth up in small sections, so as not to over complicate things. I learnt from the last warp, that less is more.

Possible ideas for bottom cloth warp.