Mon 6^th Feb – Thurs 9^th Feb, 2017

                I had read, in some of the books I borrowed from the library, that two extra wefts is possible when weaving. I thought it would be good to sample and see how technical I can get on the table top looms. I am aware that there is a lot that can’t be done on 8 shaft looms and so I want to try as much as possible while I can to develop my practice. Although the two extra wefts was quite complicated and required a lot of patience and concentration, the end result was very pleasing to the eye and linked perfectly with the research I have done on the Aztec civilisation.

                I ran into the issue of my warp running out. I don’t have much left available for me to use and still had a lot of things I wanted to sample. Therefore I jumped onto an already threaded up loom that wasn’t being used to test out the check samples that I had hoped to refer back to from the beginning of the project. The problem was that the warp is completely different in terms of colour scheme, threading and design. However, the colour scheme wasn’t too much of an obstacle as Lesley wanted me to expand and play around with the contrasting colours within my samples. The new warp also gave me the opportunity to try a different threading which drastically altered the appearance of the patterns. As of right now my check samples, in my opinion, have drawn too far away from my original colour scheme and photograph and now looks like a completely different piece of work – this may be due to the new warp which is perhaps something that could be tested on Scotweave. Next week I am hoping to start bringing back my original colour scheme while also continuing with the check patterns (maybe also moving into tartans) and contrasting colours; which I feel will work best in different shades of my original scheme.