Lotus, fragment and under water

For a long time this blog have not been updated due to busy weaving and teaching. The summer flower(lotus) is finished today. In order to get various pinks, different combinations of white and two reds had been tried. You can see many stripes of tests here. The structures are weft-backed weaves of three wefts. But five shuttles are used. The shuttle has masking tape, which has one fine magenta yarn, is to go with white weft. Another small shuttle has three fine magenta yarn is to go with pink shuttle. It is not good to wind yarns of different weight in one bobbin. Therefore to use two shuttles to complete one fill is an alternative way. If I have two-bobbin shuttle will be even better. Now the steel warp is  not long enough for winter flower (plum). I will weave other work instead. So it will be quite a while to complete the four season flowers project.

In the meantime another work was woven on the French Samtex Jacquard hand loom. Three layers of images are overlapped each other. And this long strip has three portions. One portion evolved gradually into other portion. During the interchanging part six shuttles were used. Two different styles of six shuttles were used to avoid comfusing.

Here is the snap shots of the finished piece. The length is about 5.5 meters. I need to figure out a proper way of finishing (frameing).

Beside those works, a small test was quickly woven for a possible stage costume design project. My job is weaving only. The story is something happen under water. That is all I know about this play. Here are different views of the fabric. The last one is taken with flash light.

You may notice I use big spring paper clips to hold the fabric. This is my new way of hanging work temporarily. It is better than tape and I don't like to drill holes on concrete wall.