Before I start to weave a collection of samples for my self initiated brief, drawing and development of my project is very important, it is almost vital that I have a body of work to look back on whilst I am weaving on the loom and designing my ideas, so I know exactly what colour choice I am using, I want to really explore into the most suitable yarns for this project, that would really suit my type of work in the best way.
Because all of the artist and designers that I have researched about have a very textured style of work, I have made the final decision that mohair and wool yarns will be what my samples are made up off, because of this choice this also relates back to my drawing work, the style I will create here will also be very textured, loose, woolly, something to touch/feel, jaggered edges and a little bit of a rough look.
The warp for my loom is just going to be in a very simple cream thick wool yarn, the reason for this choice is so I can bring all my excitement into the weft, and have a solid warp as my starting point.
The colours that I am going to use for my weft are, brown, green, cream, grey, blue and white, I will use a variety of different shades of these colours when choosing my yarn to create different shades, shadows and tones, the yarn that I will use will be mostly wool and mohair, but I will have some areas of a 2/16s cotton to create more define and delicate areas, by using a wide selection of yarns, I would like to create more depth of my samples, so that each section will relate back to either a part of a drawing or another part of my photos, by looking back on my artist research this will also influence what yarn type, what colours and what patterns I will use.
The structures I am going to use are going to be, plain weave, twill, honeycomb, M's and O's, spider weaving and a weave that can really bring my weft to the surface.
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