I was asked to make a wall hanging for an office. It was to reflect to company logo (a circle intersected by squares) and was to be in the corporate colours, which are sea green, light and dark grey and navy blue. My thoughts turned to networked twill, which is what I’ve been experimenting with recently. I have yet to weave the interleaved design I showed in a previous post, but thought something similar might work for the wall hanging.

I created two design lines, to weave circular and square patterns, and using the Fiberworks fuction ‘Interleave Paste’ joined them together. I experimented a bit with warp and weft colours, as changing the order, and which were used in warp and weft, seemed to make a big difference to the final appearance of the cloth. The most interesting effect came from using the sea-green and dark grey in the weft, and light grey and navy blue in the weft.

I really like the way that the circles appear like ripples on water, or interference.

I wove the cloth from Venne 8/2 cotton, sett at 20epi. This allowed me to beat square, and I was pleased to see that the cloth closely resembled the drawdown in Fiberworks.

I wove to 2.2m on the loom, then machine washed and tumble-dried before pressing.

I like the final cloth, and had thought I might make some silk scarves from the draft, but actually the back isn’t nearly as pleasing as the front, with fairly long floats of light grey (in this case).

I will mount the wall-hanging on a padded board, made from corrugated plastic (Correx) covered with polyester wadding and fabric. The woven fabric is then stitched to this around the edge – it is to be hung horizontally, so this is a good solution I think.