Nottingham Contemporary Jacquard Throw

Jacquard Throw.
Top photograph shows the fabric being woven on the loom.
The next photographs show the hand embroidery done after the fabric left the loom. The stitch used was chain stitch and the throw took 70 hours work to finish after being woven.

The throw has 174 feet of chain stitch at approx 12 stitches per inch, which means it consists of approx 25,056 stitches of embroidery!









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Nottingham Contemporary - Monarch

Several designs were worked on the Monarch Knit machine but were very difficult to photograph to show the design.
The larger scale design has the background taken from one of my own pieces of hand made lace, a tally ground, found in Bedfordshire Lace.






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Nottingham contemporary - Jacquard

A selection of the Jacquard designs produced in this range from the Nottingham Contemporary inspiration.

Some of the designs have been hand embroidered to embellish them.



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Nottingham Contemporary

The final stages of work were taken from the Nottingham Contemporary design work for the facade of the building. The concrete lace panels shown here, were designed from an 1847 piece of Richard Birkin machine made Valencienne lace.
I was involved in this design work for the building.
http://www.derby.ac.uk/textiles/news/contemporary-arts-building

I took this design and developed it further for the final collection of textiles.
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Monarch Lace Knit

This collection of fabrics derived from the stone carvings in the artwork

They were produced on a Monarch Knit machine.
Apart from the metallic grey, the soft colours were obtained by knitting the fabric in white and then dyeing afterwards, to co-ordinate with the selected colour palette.




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Hand Weaving

The project is to produce a range of contrasting fabrics - this part is for blinds and window dressing to cause light diffusion. The range is woven in silk and fine cotton in double cloth structures, with the loom set at 40EPC.
The resultant fabric is semi translucent, which unfortunately cannot be shown in these photographs.



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Jacquard Designs

Jacquard weaving with pulled thread hand embroidery to embellish and finish.













































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