Author: campbels@andrew.cmu.edu

Elle Smith – Final Weaving

For my weaving I decided to play around with some different ways of warping my (unneccarrly large) embroidery hoop. When the warp started taking on the interresting pattern (seen in the second picture) I decided to go with it, expecting to make a few flowers out of cloth based (strips that I sewed together) off what I saw of others experrimentations. The shape kept on changing until I found it merging into a heart, a shap I tried to reinforce as I wove.

Improvisational Weaving – Elle Smith

My first weavinng uses a tape roll as a loop and I wove on both sides, experimenting with technique on various places.

The weft on the top side is embroidery floss and on the bottom side is yarn that I made thicker by looping it in to a starter chain.

I find it really interesting how different each of the sides looks, based off the thickness or weaving technique.

The next weaving uses a book as a loom with the warp and weft made from magazine page slices.

I found this the most challenging weaving since the strips varried in width, this somehow lead the weaving to take on a shape different from the book cover

My final weaving was using a pencil tray as a loom with yarn as the warp and pens as the weft

The warp on this was really tense after putting in one pen, and it was exceptionally hard to weave in any more pens.