Tag: improvisational weavings

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.

Improvisational Weavings – Jesse Wallace

For this assignment, I chose to take inspiration from one of my favorite parts of my apartment – my posters. I have an extremely large poster collection and I use their colors on my wall to brighten my day and add some fun to wherever I am living. Because of that, when it was brought up that paper can be woven together in this class, I knew from the start that I should weave two posters together. I chose two that have bright and contrasting colors(pink and blue) so that the new Double Poster™ would look extra bright. The result was awesome and I cannot wait to put this new piece on the wall with my normal posters.

I also chose to do a similar course of action for my next weaving. My roommates and I are making an album wall of printed album covers from our favorite musicians. I took the two extra ones that printed(“The Big Day” by Chance the Rapper and “Vikings” by New Politics) and I wove them together as well. I then chose to use the extra photo paper to add some spice to the back half of the paper I was working on. Finally, I used the paper to write my roommate a letter!

Finally, I wanted to use my 3D printer to add to the project, so I decided to print a miniature loom and weave that using a friend’s string. Its only about 1inx2in, and it’s super cute! It was also really rewarding to make because I combined my MechE line of work with IDeATe.