WEEK 6: DAY 1

Today I did lots of weaving samples using the felting yarn that I bought the day before. Over the weekend I read a book on African texitles and I noticed that a lot of their prints and textiles were created by weaving so I definitely want to use weaving in the project.

I hadn't used this type of yarn before so I started of just doing simple samples using one or two colours. I really like this yarn because it has a lot of texture and is very chunky. It also seems like it would be very warm to wear which is good as I'm designing an Autumn/Winter collection. Once I'd become used to using this yarn I tried out one of my print designs in weaving. I really love how it turned out and I think I'd prefer to use this than digital print as it will add more dimension to the clothes rather than just being a flat print which could look at little boring.

I used this samples to draw new designs and I also redrew some designs that I already had but added these samples in as pockets and patches. I really like how these turned out and I want to experiment with more colours. This process is quite long so I'm not sure if it will be something I use in my final garment or just in my final lineup I'll decided that later.