Tuesday 10 September 2013

Academic Year 2012-13 Year 1 , Project 1 Carols Cabbages!


Year 1, Project 1 The Current course started in July 2012 with an intensive 9 day Summer School. During the 9 days we focused on working through the Woven Textile Design Process from original primary research and direct observation of Organic Subjects through to studies of colour, texture, proportion, structure etc... I took the students through a wide range of visual research techniques, producing artwork which they then used to select, yarn, textures, colours and woven structures. We then designed and made warps which werewound and threaded onto the looms provided and the students woven through the basic 8 shaft weave structures to produce thier first experimental woven textile collections. Here is a very good example of visual research from Project 1 'Organics' wonderful stuff!