立體荷花的模樣 3D lotus

立體荷花 3D lotus

When a new piece is weaving, the finished lotus is visible under the loom. The ongoing one is also lotus but in 3D form. I am trying to make a lotus out of a piece of fabric by folding. A hand woven fabric is quite different from paper. So, I am expecting it might be very different from the paper one.
這幾天開始織新的作品，也是荷花，只是會用摺紙的方式做出立體的荷花。前一幅荷花漸漸捲到織機下，可以比較清楚看到畫面。個人還蠻滿意顏色的結果，希望立體荷花明天可以織完。只能在上課和家務之外找時間織作品，實在懷念唸研究所時可以全時創作。

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.