Tuesday, 5 January 2010

MAILLE....

These samples are from knit. As you can see, they are not particularly organised in colour and design. This was due to amount of time we had to produce them which was very little. At first I just started playing with colour and pattern, tension and techniques (which they told us to do), we also got a chance to use the 'double fonture' machines or double knit domestic machines, something which I have never done before. It was only towards the very end in the last lesson I started working with my theme a little....

DOUBLE FONTURE (double domestic knit machine).....










SIMPLE FONTURE (single domestic knit)....





















TISSAGE....

Here are some of the weaves I produced in Paris. They were linked slightly linked to my theme of metamorphosis, however I also just wanted to play around with the weave and the ways of manipulating it....