Undulating Twill
March 23, 2008I saw this undulating twill in a Cole Haan ad- it’s done in leather and makes a beautiful bag. The 2×2 twill is very simple, there is no magic to the weave, it’s the variety of widths of warp and weft that cause the undulation.
I’d like to replicate this weave in satin ribbon, or in cassette & video tape for my friend Patricia, who is a Film Studies professor.
The cassette/video tape is pretty fragile, though, so I don’t know if it would survive the wear as a garment. I make have to make a scarf instead. When I stitched thru the tape, the needle holes created a perforation that made the tape tear. I have backed the sample with iron-on fusible tricot to combat that problem. I’m also not certain that the cassette/videotape would not disintegrate in the dry cleaning process. The fusible tricot may also delaminate from the tape. I have an adventerous friend on the Yahoo Weaving Group who is a dry cleaner, she has offered to process my sample as an experiment. I’m sending it off to her tonight- so we will see what happens.
XO Gail & Fog
This is very intersting and it reminds of an object from an exhibit a few years ago at the Fuller Art musem in Brockton, MA. The artist wove fabric from discarded audiotape and then constructed a dress, and in the installation the viewer could run a tape head over the fabric and it would “sing”. I loved that idea, it sort of married performance art with fashion.