Developing my ideas

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Finished design on Photoshop for the Jacquard loom.

Today was my first time weaving on the Jacquard and I found it both frightening and exciting. Rebecca the weave technician taught me how to put my design onto the programme for the Jacquard. At 12:00 it was then my go to finally begin weaving. The jacquard is so much wider than I have ever woven before, considering I usually weave a narrow fabric of about 4 inches wide. It took a while to get going but I did really enjoy it. I found it really difficult not to snap ends, no matter how careful I was being ends seemed to snap everywhere. Weaving therefore took me longer than I had hoped and I only managed to weave half of my original design. 

Slow start on the loom but the pattern eventually becomes clear.