What's Next?

Flip Flop is finished and blocking.  This is single ply yarn used for Colcha embroidery from Weaving Southwest.  I wove it on my large C. Cactus Flower loom at 10 epi.

 So how to decide what to weave next?  I am thinking about gathering inspiration from female artists I admire, like Gunta Stoltz.

Having the tapestry yarn arranged by color made it much easier to choose colors for a new project.

She, Silvia Heyden, Anni Albers and the other women of the Baushaus revolutionalized the art of textiles in the 1920s.  Moving from representational images to more  industrial and modern designs.

The 1920s was a time of considerable liberation for women, yet, unfortunately, many of the female artists and designers who studied at the Baushaus were denied entry to courses such as architecture, sculpture, painting or design classes. Instead, much of the Webereiwerkstatt (Weaving Workshop) was female.  

"We wanted to create living things with contemporary relevance, suitable for a new style of life. Huge potential for experimentation lay before us. It was essential to define our imaginary world, to shape our experiences through material, rhythm, proportion, colour and form.”

Gunta Stoltz 

 Gunta joined the Bauhaus as a student in 1920, revived the dye studio in 1921, became a junior master in 1927 and a full master the next year. She was dismissed for political reasons in 1931, two years before the Bauhaus closed under pressure from the Nazis

The small picture is an image of a watercolor Gunta did for the design of a striped fabric.  

I did a yarn wrapping replicating the colors and am going to try to interpret this in wedge weave.

Oops, I will need to unweave the black/ white circled portion.  It isn't woven on the diagonal.  I lost my wedge!  Loving working on my 22 inch Mirrix though.