Earlier Work of Laura Kent Textiles

Laura Kent | Level Four and Five Textiles in Practice | Manchester School of Art

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Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Weaving Introduction

After a wonderful and relaxing xmas holiday, it has been so lovely moving back into the new studio, catching up with my friends and starting the new textiles world of Construct. I am really looking forward to learning the techniques and ways of working in both knit and weave, as I have never studied either topic before, so I know that I am going to be challenged through-out the next six weeks.

My first half of the term is going to be specialising in weave. It was fantastic to get straight into the course on the first day- learning about the different yarn types choosing our colour schemes for our warps. I decided on a neutral palette after being inspired by a photo shoot in one of my fashion magazines. My data project is now taking form of the idea of fashion- I found it very useful looking through a collection of old magazines last night- picking out colours that I believe work well together.

I think that it is going to be quite difficult trying to incorporate both my practice and research based on 'data', together. Hopefully once I get into the week a little more my ideas will become a little clearer! Either way I just know that this is going to be a fantastic textiles world.