Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Felted double-weave textiles

I showed some double-weave textiles here, but thought I'd present these ones by themselves. The white is wool, and the blue is a plastic twine. It's a plain double-weave cloth which I then felted. The wool has shrunk, but not the plastic which has buckled and puckered, adding texture and a sculptural element to the weaving.




This is a shot of the weaving before felting. It was basically a flat piece of cloth.


This was another pattern from the same warp:


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