After painting the warp for the Polka Dot Splatter scarf and the Feather+Flora scarf, I decided to add a little more shift to the threads. Maybe it was the influence of my Ikat weekend...
The polka-splatters during warp painting (l), and again once they are back on the loom. They have shifted out of their perfect grid, which I like. Part of me feels like my job is to keep subtle and unexpected details in my work...the kind of thing that is only possible to do when making something by hand. To further highlight the shift off the grid, I have added small black dots that actually follow it. Sometimes they line up with the splatter dots, and other times the two drift apart. This keeps me visually engaged as I weave...always a good thing!
The lovely peacock feathers/flower pods, during warp-painting and on the loom. I have painted each of these 5 scarves differently: some have the little "seed clouds" around them, some are plain, and all are different in color. I think these will be great for dyeing once woven. The image has really changed in shifting...it was raining in the studio as I was weaving this, and this design got me thinking about reflections in water, and images viewed through a rain-washed window.
This is how these beauties look on the loom: I am weaving them simultaneously. It takes a bit longer to make any forward progress, but I try to remember that I am weaving 10 scarves instead of 5 this way.
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