brighton honeycomb

  • P2P2 update

    I had quite forgotten that I haven’t posted any pictures of my 12-shaft honeycomb sample. It certainly has a waffly look about it. However, I don’t like it as much as the 8-shaft version. The cells are nice and deep, but the larger size gives less sense of movement. And to be honest it wasn’t…

  • of floats

    My P2P2 sample warp looks a bit like a riot on the banks of the Ganges, but there is method in’t I promise. I’m trying a whole assortment of stripes so that I can see what happens when floats of one colour surround a cell of another colour.  However, I started with a pre-sample (yes,…

  • least liked, most looked at

    So I have been busy with my looking and an idea has begun to take shape. The picture I instinctively liked the least was this one, of the people bathing in the Ganges at the Varanasi ghats. Why don’t I like it? Well, mainly because I am not very keen on the colours (although they…

  • sticky stuff

    Since yesterday’s brain pain I have been on a journey through the weaving books which has become steadily stranger and stranger. The root of the problem is a structure called Brighton honeycomb. It isn’t a structure that I have ever used before, and I am inclined to think that an awful lot of other people…