Monthly Archives: September 2008

Some color-mixing surprises

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 30, 2008
I tried some different color combinations in photoshop and was somewhat surprised by the results.  For example, here’s what happens with a red-orange-yellow “weft”: This does not look NEARLY as bad as I had anticipated.  In fact, it might even be worth sampling…I already have twenty shades of red-to-orange weft from Liquid Fire that I [...]
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More eye candy

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 29, 2008
I finished up a pattern that I liked and, with the help of Photoshop, managed to map out what it would look like with a black weft: You will unfortunately have to imagine the full pattern, but it’s symmetric so that shouldn’t be too hard. And here is a similarly partial view of what it [...]
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Questions

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 29, 2008
Jyoti asked (in email) whether the progression of dye mixes is linear.  The answer is no, it’s not at all linear.  Some colors are “strong” and some are “weak”.  In my observation colors with darker values are “strong” and colors with lighter values are “weak”, but I don’t know if that’s true generally. Anyway, the [...]
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Patterns in network threading

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 27, 2008
Since I’ve come down with a cold, which makes lengthy bike rides inadvisable, I’ve been working on the weaving project.  In addition to my Photoshop simulations, I’ve wound five 12-yard bouts on my sectional beam using my new-to-me AVL Warping Wheel.  Thank all the myriad gods, it is going on flat, smooth, and with near-perfect [...]
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Playing in Photoshop

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 27, 2008
I have been simulating various warp and weft colors in Photoshop: Based on my results (and these are just a small fraction of the things I’ve tested), I think I’m going to use the full fuchsia to turquoise color range, in just one reflected stripe (I found multiple stripes distracting).  As for weft colors…no decisions [...]
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