Design Ideas for Stripes or Rep Weave

Designing on the computer is great way to get your creative juices flowing. Different graphic programs enable you to do different things to the images. My focus is to produce colourways for dyeing yarns or for the woven cloth when I am using graphic programs.

The photo on the right would lend itself well to assisting with stripe design. One of the cool tools that some of these programs have is the ability to choose colour schemes and quickly change the feel of the fabric from cool to warm.

Another design idea would be to use this as a colorway in rep weave. When the warp is placed close together on the loom the weft yarn can be barely visible or not visible at all. Although the warping time for a rep project can take awhile, the weaving is really quick.

I am posting a few other design ideas I have had on file for about a year. These design ideas were created in a card design program, but I could envision the edited version of these photos being tapestries. Not that I usually do tapestries but I will have to do one for the Canadian Weavers Guild tests, so I have started collected some ideas to choose from.

The first photo is of a shed behind my house. I took the photo before they started building and always found the shed and snow a pretty scene.

The second picture is of a Christmas Cactus plant we have that seems to bloom most of the year. I really love the pinks in the flowers.

The third picture is off Vancouver Island - my favourite place to spend holidays. Seems I can never get enough of it. Somehow the tapestry look of the island is not as clear as it is when viewing it in the program viewer. Well I had better get to threading the reed for the ribbons.