Tapestry 4

The whole of the last blog didn't get published because I inadvertently pressed the jump break button and the rest of the blog disappeared.  Now I know to avoid it.

Finished.  I have enjoyed weaving these tapestries.  My sister said they looked like I had cut them up and rewoven them; they are meant to look like that.

Now for a larger one to complete the series.

Tapestry 4

I have finally finished the 8 tapestries relating to the Christmas Table Cloth.  I used the same process throughout.  I wove a small 10cm X 10cm using images and letters from the cloth.

I then played with this image in Photoshop to come up with a background I liked.

 Then I collaged a Christmas symbol and other bits to complete the design.

It looks a bit dull as I scanned it.  In this cartoon I added the Christmas stocking, made a line from the white weaving and completed the C.  Then I wove.

Tapestry 3

I have finished (nearly) tapestry 3 and I have had  some trouble with the design.  In the first instance, I had the bell on an angle and it looked awful ; so I pulled it out, changed the angle  and wove away.  I am thinking of putting a bow on the bell before I take it off the loom.

This is the small 10cm X 10cm tapestry  I used to distort to get my final image.

One of the distortions; not the one I finally used.

The design with the bell on an angle.

It was much easier with bell straight; not as interesting but easier to weave.

May 26 th.

May 27th.

Looks awful.

June 4th.

June 7th. 

It's amazing how different the greens appear; it is the same mixture though.
Another step closer.

Finished Tapestry 2

I have finished tapestry 2 of the 4 larger ones I am doing; here are some pics.

I must have taken the last picture on a sunny day in the studio; the real colour is more the first picture.  I have taken it off the loom and am in the process of finishing it off.  I quite like this tapestry.  There are not as many columns (for want of a better word) as the first one.  I have started tapestry 3 and about half way there but I will blog about it when I finish, hopefully, at the end of this week. 

It is ages since I posted a blog; life sometimes intrudes.  The course I was  been doing at Warnambool have cut out years 5 and 6 about which I was very disappointed. I thought they were the "cream on the cake" years where you got to develop a series of tapestries and when I expressed my thoughts, I was offerered some of the subjects - Yr. 5 and 6 tapestry and design which I was very happy about.  I decided to develop the Christmas Table Cloth idea to do a series of 4, 20 cm X 20 cm tapestries based on smaller 10 cm X 10 cm tapestries using the same technique and idea I used for the one posted earlier this year; and in 2nd semester do 2 larger ones. I  have woven 3 small tapestries and have started to weave the second of the larger tapestries.  Here is the process I have gone through.

The small 10 X 10 cm tapestry

The final design.

The colour is different because it has been printed.

Work in progress.