The first piece has a warp that is paper I have placed under work when I have been painting and the weft is strips cut from a magazine page. I think the contrast works very well. I like the monochrome against the coloured warp.
This next piece again has strips from a magazine page and painted paper. The painted paper weft has thinner strips than the warp and I like this effect because the colour is almost a hint and is not dominating the piece. I like the warp strips being larger because the image on them is very textured looking and I think is a nice contrast to the painted strips.
The sample below is painted paper strips woven into hessian. I pulled out some of the threads in the hessian so that the weave was more open. I like this piece because there is a good contrast of size of the warp and weft and the hessian adds texture. Looking at it now I think I could perhaps have tried to add some other papers which would have given even more texture. It has more of a textured look than is shown in the photograph below where it looks a little 'flat'.
Below are two samples of paper as a warp with chenille thread and dyed scrim and knitting wool as a weft. The third piece on the righthand side is dishcloth fabric as a warp with painted paper strips as a weft. I like the these pieces as they are more textural. The piece in the middle with the knitting wool was more fragile to deal with even more so than the dishcloth piece but I think it has a nice raised effect. I cannot wait to get to the weaving exercises in the course now that I have had a taster of playing with warps and wefts.
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