Plain-weave tapestry of a cake on a pink plate, woven in hand-dyed wool at Penland School of Craft.

02 — STRUCTURE / COLOR / YARN / WEAVE

Woven Textiles

HAND / DOBBY / JACQUARD

Cloth built pick by pick: a plain-weave tapestry on a floor loom, sixteen-shaft structures drafted for an electronic dobby, and an indexed image translated into jacquard interlacing. The scans on these pages are flatbed scans of the woven samples.

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PROJECT_01

Image Weaving — Penland

WORKSHOP / PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT / 2025

A photograph reduced to a limited yarn palette and woven in plain weave on a floor loom, in a workshop with tapestry artist Erin M. Riley.

FLOOR LOOM / PLAIN WEAVE / TAPESTRY / COLOR REDUCTION

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Dobby Structures

WEAVING LAB

Six weave structures drafted on a sixteen-shaft grid, entered into an electronic dobby loom and woven as samples.

WEAVE DRAFTING / 16-SHAFT DOBBY / TWILL / SATEEN / COMPOUND WEAVES

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Image to Jacquard

WEAVING LAB

An original photograph indexed in Photoshop, assigned yarns and weaves per color in EAT DesignScope, and woven on a jacquard loom.

INDEXED COLOR / EAT DESIGNSCOPE / JACQUARD LOOM

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