When i first looked at Richard Tuttle's book 'I don't know the weave of textile language', it was his work at the turbine hall that attracted me to his book, and how his evaluation of text and textile represents weave as language. Our everyday life can be interwoven, or sequential with the choices we make and routines we follow... but this piece stood out, as when i completed my samples, I tried weaving very freely, not thinking too much of an outcome, but trying to be instinctive and just do or create whatever i felt that day. But reflecting weave still requires a lot of structure, you have to set up a warp (vertical threads) before you can weave anything through it, so although i was trying to be very liberal, i was preparing and thinking a lot more than i realised, and this piece inspired me to think about grids, or structures that are already available.
Tuttle has used pulp on top of chicken wire, but what if you could weave through the mesh, create tassels and movement, but also texture, the contrast between metal and fabric...
Here are some initial experiments, with the same approach as the diary samples, just selecting yarns that stood out to me, and weaving very freely.
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