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Obsessed with the little patterns I found in cloth one, I decided to devote the second cloth to that. But then on sixteen shafts, because my new loom was in. What fascinated me about the patterns was, on the one hand, how some were almost pixel-like, as can occur with graphic glitches. But more importantly, how joining threads through weaving can make so many different textures. As a reference to the weft used, in setting up the warp, I chose to alternate the final patterned lanes in the canvas with the blue, tighter lanes based on the twill technique.
Element uit Weaving Glitches doek twee
Networked
In the warp I used several variations based on the network weaving technique, in which two or more patterns, each with its own color, are intertwined. In this case it’s three colors, red, green and yellow. I used mercerized yarn (shiny!) for the bolder areas or lanes of the fabric to create more contrast with the blue lanes. In this example, I added a glitch to the tie-up drawing for the purpose of causing happy accidents, nice structures in the weave.
WIF files (use right mouse button to save)
Without glitch (not shown) 21 glitches 02.wif
Glitched 21 glitches 03 glitch.wif
Patterns and glitches
By making variations on the twill in the weft, I got different patterns in the fabric. Where the focus of the design was on the blue lanes, the more colorfull lanes glitched along with them. I had already set up the right-hand lane in the warp quite in an unstructured way, precisely to create a form of chaos.
WIF file (use right mouse button to save) 21 glitches 04 – 1 ipv 3 repeat.wif
Shuffle weaving technique
Halfway through the canvas, I decided to keep manipulating the tie-up drawing, which I then kept converting to lift plan. The tie-up drawing is actually for tying the treadles that lift the shafts on a larger loom, but I found that it is an ideal way to design intuitively in weaving software. The shuffle weaving technique was born; I’ll write more about this later!
WIF file (use right mouse button to save) 21 glitches 15 – glitched block zigzag.wif
Full weave
The variations of cloth two in a zip file. Be aware, this is messy! Where lift appears after the document, it is (usually) the above file converted into an lift plan.
weaving-glitches-doek-twee.zip
My research Weaving Glitches was financially supported by the Creative industries fund, with the Experiment scheme (now Kick-start Grant)
