“Iced Honeycomb”

Culture & Context

This sample is a honeycomb weave structure inspired by the bees honeycomb structure from their hives. Looking at the structure of honeycomb and its delicacy yet strong structure influenced the yarn choice for this piece.

This strong and thick structure is hollow and has many different functions and qualities. The woven
structures very similar to the bees structure which is why it was used. Mimicking the structure yet still being different.

Process & Production

The process of this material was hand weaving the honeycomb structure on a 24 shaft ARM Touch60 Loom using all 24 shafts. There is a lot of time spent on setting up and calculating the woven structure as well as the actual weaving of the sample. The piece is woven by hand and finished with sewing after it has been removed from the loom.

Recipe Details

24 shafts using an ARM Touch 60 loom.
Pointed draft was used with a warp width of 12” and sample length of 12”.
There are 60 ends per inch (epi) for the warp and a weight of 150g.

Warp yarn : ice-blue monofilament polyester yarn from dead-stock yarn from Botony
weaving mill.

A honeycomb structure across 24 shafts was the structure used, the largest
honeycomb structure possible with this set up (48ends per block).
Weft yarn : An optic white 100% polypropylene.
Once weaving was complete, sample was removed form loom and edges were
stitched to secure before mounting to canvas to frame.