tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794518577624287475.post7949520610818523319..comments2024-03-25T23:10:29.753-05:00Comments on Nattosoup Art and Process: Creating Plaid Patterns with Copics and WatercolorsBecca Hillburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07105718152078435585noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-794518577624287475.post-20115387327716774372013-03-27T23:44:13.102-05:002013-03-27T23:44:13.102-05:00So as a fiber artist, I've done some weaving a...So as a fiber artist, I've done some weaving and thought you might find some information on how plaid fabric is made which affects the appearance of the cloth that you are trying to capture in your art. Plaids are really just a series of stripes and the same series of stripes rotated to be perpendicular to the first. In most plaids the stripes are symmetrical because the stripe pattern is strung and woven on the loom foreword and backward (if your stripe pattern is green blue green purple the loom is strung green blue green purple purple green blue green). <br />The diagonal breaks you see in stripes of plaids are a result of how the fabric is woven. Plaids are traditionally woven in a basic twill weave which means a thread passes over 2 threads and then under 2 threads. The next thread does the same but is staggered one thread over which creates a diagonal effect. This diagonal pattern runs in the same direction for an entire piece of cloth no matter whether the stripe is a horizontal one or a vertical one.<br />You can integrate these facts into your own art by remembering to draw the horizontal and vertical strips of a plaid identically in the pattern of stripe widths and colors and having the diagonal grain of your plaids go in the same direction for the whole piece of cloth.Dreamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412447819828301892noreply@blogger.com