Weaving again

I'm back on the loom doing some paid work, which is great to see how the loom functions in its new home. All seems to be going well and I have some interesting weights that I bought from Oxfam. You need weights to keep the tension in the warp and I didn't have any so I scoured Oxfam where I volunteer on a Thursday afternoon and they had some pink tie round your leg weights so they are now dangling off the back of the loom! With the added advantage that when I'm not using them I can do some weight lifting, all for £2.99 not bad!

steel wire

This is an interesting one and something I definatly want to experiment with further, the use of metal wire. Here I've use a very fine steel wire to weave pleats which can be manipulated in to different shapes. As these have to be washed to shrink the wool the wire takes on a wave shape from the washing machine which is how I've left this one.

More from the jelly fish collection

wool

I've been taking a lot of photos recently of my work for various application forms so I thought I'd post a few so you can see a bit more of my portfolio. This is one of my jelly fish inspired pieces which I did for my degree show. Its wool, monofiliment and silk. At the moment as I think I've already said I'm using these pieces for inspiration for my next project and I think I may have just tracked down a similar wool so I can finally do all the things I wanted to do based on the jelly fish project.

Thank you

As my father has just pointed out, all my work is being looked after very well so a big thank you to Mum and Dad for putting up with about 10 portfolios (and a few other things!) in their house.

Samples

This is one of my University samples from 2nd year its a double cloth with silk linen and monofiliment. Its fun when you find old work you forgot you had (most of my stuff is still hidden in portfolios at my parents house one day I'll go rescue them!).

The loom rebuilt

Here it is in its new home!
I haven't had chance to actually use it yet but it is all ready to go.
I also found some of my older work so thats out on the loom to inspire me.
Well I'm taking it easy today as I have a cold not a very bad one just enough to take away all your energy! So catching up on the paper work the boring part of self employment!!