Doodling

Okay, so I've caught another bug. I still have very low energy levels from the cough, so I'm not up to anything that requires much brainpower. Doodling is about as much as I can manage.

This particular bug is called Repper, an application for creating tiled images based on anything you import (jpg, png, bmp, etc.)

Following Alice's lead, I started with some very small tiles, suitable for copying into the liftplan for the 24-shaft dobby loom. In the course of several attempts, I managed to create a couple of crepe-like designs that may find their way onto the towel warp:





The first one uses 4-end twills; the second uses 5-end satin. Okay, all well and good - an interesting way to generate crepes. Fine, as far as it goes.

However, I think that Repper will become a very interesting part of my jacquard design toolkit! After mustering some brain cells, I imported part of this image of an ice cave (courtesy National Geographic Society):



In Repper, I created a single tile from just part of the image:



Then in Pshop, I doubled the tile and used a few filters to manipulate the image, and this is the result, indexed to 10 colors (4 shades of blue-violet, 5 shades of turquoise, plus black).



Kaleidascope Dreams. It might even make it onto the jacquard loom.