Tartan

I've recently had a hand in and a presentation so have been a very busy bee!! But that means... new project. This time I am tackling........ TARTAN. My favourite thing, possibly ever. I remember when I was 13 becoming obsessed with the sex pistols and wanting everything I owed (including my curtains) to be tartan.... and now I'm a weaver, what could be better than being able to create it?

I've been doing some basic research into the sort of "classic" tartans, the peg pans, the drafts, the colours, the sets of colours in the warp. I'm intending to create tartans in the most traditional ways I can, alongside using very contemporary techniques and challenging what is classed as a "perfect" tartan and what would be rejected, although it still may be very aesthetically pleasing.