After only 2+ years, I have worked through all of the pictures from the 2010 Calendar that caught my attention as a color inspiration. I honestly didn't think it would take so long, but life and other weaving projects intervened. I figured that I have woven around 140 of these towels. Ten towels were woven for each month (except August's) and several were woven a second time.
The last month was May. This posed a bit of a challenge, mainly because of all of the bright green and yellow color in the picture. Lots of primary brightness.
I was able to find colors in the flowers that weren't as bright - browns, melon and red colors. In addition to the bright Kelly green there were darker greens in the background.
These towels, like the others were woven with 10/2 perle cotton sett at 24 epi. The threading was an 8 point twill and woven with a 2-2-1-1-1 8-shaft pattern. One towel in each weft color was treadled as threaded, i.e., treadled as an 8-point twill, resulting in regular diamonds. The second towel in each color was treadled as something else, e.g., irregular point twill, M's & W's, extended point twill, etc.
It has been a great experience and I've learned a lot about how to use color effectively. I'm sure there will be more colorful towels in the future.
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| green weft |
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| brown weft |
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| red weft |
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| melon weft |
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| yellow weft |
3 comments:
I'm just learning to weave at my local Art Center and am fascinated by your towels. I hope to understand more as time goes by but for now may I say "They are lovely"
What a great idea to challenge yourself with color. I might have to think about this for the future.......
Hi Ingrid: I found some time to view your weaving blog and just love what you create. Love how you draw colors from nature. Beautiful!
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