Mon 30^th April – Fri 4^th May, 2018

                I began the week by planning the new colour combination for my warp. Some of Claudia’s research about glass really stood out to me with the colours she found in a fabric that mimicked glass characteristics. I decided to use these colours to influence my design since they were much brighter and a nice contrast to my previous warp. I decided on a bright orange being the main colour which should really lift all my weft colours and create more of a pop of colour throughout each sample. Making the warp and knotting it on took two full days and although time consuming, I think will work really well with our other samples and add a nice bright element. By the end of the week I had chance to do some samples and have also done some small samples in some solid colours to add some relief to our textile collection as a whole. Within the group everything is very heavy in pattern and colour so some areas of plain colours should complement nicely when getting these textile samples onto our final line up.

                On Friday we spent the entire morning working really well as a group on our group file and our textile book. We managed to delegate jobs within the group so that we worked on both at the same time and made a lot of progress with both areas. Both files are almost complete but the bulk of the work on each is done. We also discussed perhaps presenting our portfolio in a concertina style to clearly see the flow of our progress on this unit.