For the second task on plagiarism and the importance in referencing I first chose a book called Weaving Textiles: That Shape Themselves that I had used in my weave project. It was of interest to me as it was about the structure you can get in weaving from simple techniques. Wet finishing was a technique that the Egyptians used (Richards, 2012 p 24). Another technique is twisting (Richards, 2012 p 26) where a pattern of weaving is quit simple but the yarn is highly twisted so it creates a structured texture.

I then wanted to look into the technique of shrinkage using the internet and found a website (weavezine.com) with more information about this technique. It had similar samples and explained ‘differential shrinkage’.  The things I was interested in in the book.

There wasn’t really any decent articles either from a newspaper or a magazine to find. The only articles I was finding were from very basic craft magazines. But this lead me to think I should look into fine art textile artists who used structure as their basis. I found Mairanne Kemp who pieces are woven with horse hair often in large loops and create a very structural woven art piece. Although they are not created using either of the techniques specified above, they do represent the use of structure in textile weaving.

References.

Anon, (2015). Influence and Evolution Introduction: Marianne Kemp. [online] Available at: http://arttextstyle.com/2015/03/20/influence-and-evolution-introduction-marianne-kemp/ [Accessed 25 Oct. 2017].

Richards, A. (2012). Weaving textiles that shape themselves. Ramsbury: Crowood.

Weavezine.com. (2017). Plain Weave Variations | Syne Mitchell. [online] Available at: http://www.weavezine.com/content/plain-weave-variations.html [Accessed 25 Oct. 2017].