Black and Yellow

So, this is the jacket that I did for my final weaving project last semester. While I like what this is, it isn't exactly what I set out to do. This project began with one of the other weavers doing pleats. I thought it would be neat to have a jacket with pleats down the back that got consecutively larger.

I wanted the pleats to be made out of something see through, so that you got a layered effect. (I have been thinking about trying the pleats again and scratching the visibility idea, just because I still have this image stuck in my head of what I wanted it to look like in terms of form... which is this but isn't this.)

I tried a number of different things. The one that ended up working the best was the fishing line. Though my original idea was to use plastic, as I did with the garment in the previous post. However, even if the plastic was cut in very narrow strips, the visibility was lost when it got bunched up in the weave.

I'm currently planning on doing a set up that includes both this piece and the plastic/trashion piece as interacting with each other. Similar in some respects to what I tried to do with this scene. In this scene I plan on working with the silhouette as I did in weighted. The difference being that in this current scene, I would like to attempt to try and make the silhouette look as if it is wearing the garment hanging out in front of it.

I'm going to try a set up that includes on the heads, hands and feet of the silhouette and not the entire thing. The problem that I can see right now, is the fact that different people will be viewing it from varying heights, as we are all different shapes and sizes. This will mean that if I line up the garments and the outlines for my height, it will be off for everyone else.

Though I suppose some wiggle room could be added in there... there is some work that needs to be done, and things that need to be played around with. I'm hoping to get some time in the study this weekend to see what I can do.  I thought about going in today but... I can't carry everything I need with me and that's the only option at this point.

Anyway, I need to figure out how I want to model for the silhouettes for me. Doing myself is hard and easy at the same time. There is something in that thought, of doing to silhouettes of myself. Hmmm... has a different meaning though.

Alright, that's it for now. Outwards and onwards. Poofs.

Weaving Chaps

Alright, so I've had a few curious comments from people. So, my last weaving project for BFA was a woven pair of chaps. Which seems to boggle people's minds just a little bit.

Thusly, here are a few images from said project. Pardon the unedited versions of images, I'm still having issues getting CS 4 or 5 to work in any form and haven't had the time to sit down with my computer and try anything that takes more time.

 So basically, they were woven all in one long piece on the loom. The wool was inserted into the weave and locked in place by further weaving. Once everything was woven, one long piece was taken off the loom and cut into sections, legs and waist. The sections were then sewn together to create the chaps.

I realize now I don't have a good frontal view of them, only the side view. But this gives people an idea. ;) 

Anyway, so yeah. Now two weeks before the next critique because everything has been shoved together. So, I need to go and start working on that, not to mention reading for my other class and another project for the weaving class (for that kinda got shoved out of the way in the need to finish the chaps... which subsequently too much, much longer then they were supposed to.) But yeah, I will post a few Feast pictures eventually. vanishes.