"Fancy twills"

I'm going after Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy!

With the current theme i'm working from, i'm looking at "finishing techniques" meaning all sorts of things that can be done after a piece of fabric is woven. Something I thought could be really interesting for several reaons was freezing (hence the batman quote in the title of this post) and I can only say some was a great success!

I used a weave sample with various textures and levels, a flat fancy twill combined with a plain weave with rug tufting techniques to make the surface very textured. I submerged part within the water and left the other part out of the water and avoided it getting wet.

Grey, grey, grey

Still working on the "grey" project for university, it's actually turning out to be not so bad. The lack of colour and a real concept are really helping me to develop my technical skills as I'm not distracted by anything else. I've been working on 16 shaft patterns that I've never used before and have also been using the book "The handbook of weaves" by  G. H. Oelsner (if any of you are aspiring weavers, check it out!) its bloody fantastic.

Theres a fully section on "fancy twills" which just blew me away.

Here's some of my work using those patterns.