I love this name. I thought it was Laharya only because Mom bought it near there, along with a whole bunch of real Laharya cloths. But this one has the most uplifting color combo. Until yesterday afternoon, I thought I should put on a "simpler" warp to practice weaving on my big loom. But what practice? I've been weaving on it for a fair few years and I'm eager to get back into action, so I decided to dispense with the Convent School frivolity and jump right in. So, to recap:
The original inspiration, this being the only photo of the cloth I have:
The warp, where the colors are a little bit truer than yesterday's pic:
Color proportion and distribution, but too much yellow:
From the start I had in mind these small irregular triangles lined up and going up and down, irregular size and alignment being an important part. I want clusters of triangles. This was my starting point.
If I'm going to play around with weft colors, it's no use making the draft overly complicated, and if I can make the threading simple, all the better. But the above, I'm afraid, doesn't have the cute vertical clusters of triangles I had in mind.
The appearance of the cloth is too complicated, not innocent. So now I'm asking myself; how much do I want to stick to the look and feel of the original cloth vs how much do I want to "develop the idea".
So after one day of working it, this is what I've come so far.
A wee bit of detail.
And I'm a little tired now, but I just had another idea. LOL.
Love it when those ideas just keep on coming! Now to just catch them.
ReplyDeleteYes, exactly, catching the right ones quickly enough!
ReplyDeleteI love triangles! Looking forward to seeing this cloth develop.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I ever tried to make triangles before, but, well, here they are. Kind of.
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