Striped Cream Bumps

Properties & Qualities

Application

Sample Making Other

Colour

Brown White

Sample Information

Date of creation

June 2023

Dimensions

Height 9” x Width : 12”

Weight

43g

Culture & Context

I have been working as a part time barista for the past 18 months while also pursuing
my textiles career. In this time, I have fallen in love with the process of making coffee
however there is a huge amount of waste that comes with it. Through this project I
wanted to see how many ways I could utilise waste from the coffee industry and turn it
into a new/ experimental material or process.

This sample was inspired by the colours seen throughout many coffee drinks but
focused on the initial testing and exploration of surface manipulation while weaving on
the loom using both warps of the double cloth weave.

Process & Production

The process of this material was firstly setting up the loom. When that was complete I
started weaving. The first stripe was woven having the coffee dyed warp front facing
using a plain weave and the brown merino wool as the weft. This was the alternated
with the cream wool warp front facing using the 1ply Galway wool as the weft.

To get the surface bumps, I then only wove the cream warp front facing leaving the
coffee warp unwoven. The Galway wool was used for the weft yarn here too. After the
2” stripe was woven I release the tension of the cream warp and pulled it towards me.
I then secured this by making the coffee warp front facing and wove 2” of that using
the brown merino wool as the weft. I continued this until my sample was the desired
length.

Recipe Details

Loom Set Up :
Double Cloth set up using 16 shafts on a 24 shaft shaft ARM Touch 60 Loom.
Warp 1 & 2 : Galway Wool 1ply – length 4 yards, one dyed with waste coffee grounds
the other was left plain.
Weight : 232g for both.
24epi, 336 ends in total
Width : 14”
Straight draft in blocks AABAABAABAABAA

Material Sample :
2” stripe plain weave using a naturally dyed brown merino wool yarn from Bart and
Francis, ensuring the coffee warp was front facing.
2” stripe plain weave using the plain cream 1ply Galway wool, ensuring the cream
warp was front facing.
2” stripe plain weave using a naturally dyed brown merino wool yarn from Bart and
Francis, ensuring the coffee warp was front facing.
2” stripe plain weave using the plain cream 1ply Galway wool, ensuring the cream
warp was front facing and none of the coffee warp was set to weave.
Once the cream stripe was woven the cream warp tension was release and pulled
towards me and secured with a 2” stripe plain weave using a naturally dyed brown
merino wool yarn from Bart and Francis, ensuring the coffee warp was front facing.
This was repeated until the sample was the desired length.