My sister, Clara Prince is making a chair at West Dean College for her end of year project. I have been given the task to design a piece of fabric, to be upholstered to the chair. She wanted very feminine soft colours. We decided a cream and light pink would work well.
I have already been weaving away, however, the fabric isn’t exciting enough. I had originally let Clara decide what fabric she wanted, however, with her lack of knowledge in that area, the fabric didn’t look great. It was a good lesson and a useful practice. I learnt to input more. As now, I have do redo everything. It would have been better to discuss my concerns before, rather than continuing to weave and waste my time. Having also completed this we decided the boucle yarn was too distracting.
To consider when designing again.
- EPCM need to be more compact 8/10 threads?
- wider, full width of loom to account for shrinkage.
- choose a pattern that is timeless.
- choose yarn that allows you to view the pattern more easily.
