ARCHIVE: ROSE PATTERN
Image submission (click to enlarge): Rose Pattern.
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Submission title: Rose Pattern
Submitted by: Armen Keuchguerian Participant’s field of work/interest: Interdisciplinary/ Fibre Artist Participant’s Image Description: "Repeat-pattern design intended for screenprinting, collaged from found imagery on the Internet. Keuchguerian was thinking about the translation of an image from the material world to digital data as a photograph on a screen, back to material through weaving." Translation and weaving by Sophia Borowska. |
Pointcarré weaving simulation (click to enlarge).
Translation to Weaving
The image file received had a glitch in the
pattern repeat, where it lined up slightly wrong. I assumed it was part of
Keuchguerian’s concept for the submission, but it later turned out that the
glitch was an error embedded in the file, which possibly occurred by repeatedly
changing file types and sending the image over email. This mistake perfectly
illustrated the aesthetics of malfunction that this project is aiming to
capture, so I emphasized the glitch while designing the file. I also designed a
file using light to dark variations of a rosepath weave structure, but this
seemed gimmicky rather than creating a meaningful relation to Keuchguerian’s
ideas.
-Sophia |
Weaving structures - click to access full set of structures - available to WDRG members only.
Technique and Process Notes
Since the image was predominantly pink and
white, I chose to use 1 weft in 13 shades of satin to achieve a more
photographic effect. To mimic this malfunction in the weaving, I decided to
allow some of the glitches inherent to the weaving process to occur, alongside
the digital glitch.
-Sophia Threads Used: Warp is white 2/16 mercerized cotton. Weft is pink 2/8 cotton. |
Colour reduction for designing weaving (click to enlarge).
Outcome Notes
Broken threads mimic the image’s glitched line so well that
it is hard to distinguish between the intended and unintentional. I also kept
weaving the repeat for half an inch at the end of the finished pattern,
mimicking the original misaligned repeat.
-Sophia Number of Picks: 336 Woven Dimensions: 20” x 8.25” Weaving Density (ppi): 41 Original Dimensions: 850 × 346 pixels |
Images of Final Woven Samples
FRONT (ABOVE), BACK (BELOW).
DETAIL (FRONT) - click to enlarge.
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DETAIL (BACK) - click to enlarge.
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