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Slide 2 Slide 3 Woven in Wales... traditional and contemporary designs image courtesy Melin Tregwynt Slide 4 Producing iconic products by using traditional constructional skills. images courtesy Melin Tregwynt Slide 5 Mulberry Margaret Howells Comme des Garcons Birkenstock Sandersons Designers Guild Muji Descamps Heals Conrans Producing products for: images courtesy Melin Tregwynt Slide 6 Product lines Slide 7 Slide 8 All the cloth produced by Melin Tregwynt is woven using one of number of weaving patterns. Slide 9 Warp threads Run the length of the loom Weaving Thread is wrapped around the length of a loom, this is called the warp thread. Another thread called the weft is woven under and over the warp thread. Weft threads Run from left (weft) to right Slide 10 weft thread over warp weft thread under warp weft thread over warp weft thread under warp Weaving The simplest weaving pattern is a plain weave. How does a cloth get woven? warp thread Slide 11 images courtesy Melin Tregwynt MondoMadison Luna St Davids Cross Knot garden Marina Rounded cross Carew Task look in the Melin Tregwynt website to find the design influences/inspiration on each of the above designs. Modern graphic spot 60s Early Shaker Retro 50s 30s Bauhaus Blazer strips Weave styles Slide 12 Task : using Melin Tregwynt as your inspiration source, design an innovative pattern Slide 13 colourways of the Mondo range Slide 14 Using the Mondo design as an inspiration source for patterns Slide 15 Further development of the Mondo inspired design. extracting shapes from the design Slide 16 Continued development of the Mondo inspired design. moving the circles to make crescent shapes in the design Slide 17 Continued development of the Mondo inspired design. creating repeat patterns from the designs. Slide 18 Recap of the design development. Inspiration source circles and lines extracting shapes from the circles creating crescent shapes repeat pattern Slide 19 Task develop a pattern using a any of the following as a starting point. circle and a square circle and a trianglecircle and a cross circle and a hexagon Slide 20 Task develop a pattern using a square and circle. Slide 21 Task develop a pattern using a square and triangle. simple repeat pattern alternating the direction of the triangle Slide 22 Task develop a pattern using a square and cross. simple repeat pattern alternating the two different shapes. Slide 23 the background of the company videos related to weaving amusing videos related to wool and weaving. Visit the Melin Tregwynts web site A wide range of interesting YouTube extracts are available on the Melin Tregwynt website ranging from: Slide 24 The largest picnic rug in the world 40 metres X 44 metres Made in 3 weeks Fast turnaround of high quality bespoke products Find out what happened to this huge rug view the advert and see the rug. Log into YouTube picnic rug.