Taking inspiration from different parts of both my sketchbook and mood boards, I have spent this evening looking into different textures that can be created by the power of experimenting with both technique and material. As a starting point, I started with simple knots into an old shoe lace, layering knots on top of one another to create different widths and grooves in the material.
Next, I made loops within pieces of wool in multiple strands, attaching them into my sketchbook. If looking at them from above, they just look like knot, but turning the view sideways I find the results to be interesting, little loops that remind me of musical notes. I feel that looking at the piece from different angles gives different depths to the piece- for example looking at where the shadows of the loops lie is quite interesting. I would like to experiment more with the idea of the shadows and shapes that are produced by the use of knotting as I feel it may lead on to fit nicely with the samples for my chose live brief.
Lastly for this evening, the good old favourite french knots came out again, this time, as above, looking at them from a different viewpoint. The results of doing this led me to think of tiny contours that you find on maps, looking at the height and shapes created by each individual knot.