3D Structurally Woven Headdresses / Hats (Scroll down for more pictures) |
One day, while taking a weaving class at Mass College of Art and Design, my teacher made the offhand comment that "when you weave you always get a rectangle." As a sculpture major and someone who always thinks in 3-D, I was shocked. Either I needed to change my major or needed to figure out how to weave in three dimensions. Well, I figured out how to structurally weave in three dimensions on a loom. (Basket weavers have been doing this for eons, but not on a loom.) To me that means not relying on yarn shrinkage and not relying on just shaping the fabric after it's off the loom - the fabric has to be woven into the desired shape while on the loom. But that's just me. How do I do this? I put different sections of the warp on different shafts of the loom and advance the various sections of the warp at different rates as I'm weaving. For one piece of cloth that I wove, the right selvage was 11 inches long while the left was 54 inches long. As you can imagine if you are a weaver, this results in many problems with tension and so I had to invent many ways to deal with the tension. How? Well, that takes a class to really explain. . . . . |
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