Wednesday 18 November 2009

Chapter 6 - more playing with grids

These samples are my experiments with grids.  They are all scanned in the middle of A4 paper.

The very bright lime greens seem to photo and scan as pale blue - very odd.

9  This is the loopy one from the last chapter - the colours show better now I scanned it instead of taking a photo.  

8  I machined in both directions and then threaded through bundles of withdrawn threads together with fleece and sewing threads.  They make a sort of stylised 'f'  shape.

7 This is a fat little grid threaded with all sorts of bits and pieces: fruit net, plaited plastic string, stuffed ribbon, machined cords, fleece, handmade cord and strips of fabric. The colours are actually much more vibrant than this shows.

6 A threaded grid with hand stitching over the top - deliberately fine and spider like in contrast to the heavy threading.

5. Some needleweaving trying to use my letters and research patterns.

4 A withdrawn grid with the threads couched down as a border of  j's.  Needleweaving over bars and crosses.  Getting the weaving over the crosses took me ages to get right - I kept heading in the wrong direction and spoiling the pattern.

3 The back view of 2 showing how the thread bundles were looped over the bars.

2. Withdrawn threads to contrast and looped at the edges.  Threads from other grids bundled and knotted around bars.  It is not blue as it looks here but violet and green - though quite pastel shades, this one.

1 Lots of threads withdrawn with some hand stitching and machining groups of threads in different ways.











1 comment:

Maggie said...

Your grids are really taking off Hazel!! The pace you work at is amazing!...