Continuing with feathers, I took an image of a gull taken at Exeter Quay and enlarged a small area. After converting this to black and white, I posterised the enlargement to highlight the feather structure. Using cut raffia painted white with acrylic, I replicated the layered structure of the feathers (Image 87).
Observing feathers, as they overlay, they have a woven texture. To obtain this effect, using wrapping ribbon as the warp and
firstly, the white paper handle (separated and split) from a paper carrier bag, and
secondly, the same ribbon
for the weft, I wove the two materials (Image 88).
One last sample, in my haste to open a parcel containing Art Textiles of the World: Great Britain, the outer brown paper, from the corrugated paper wrapping it, peeled off. After some selective peeling, scoring with a scalpel and a coat of vinyl emulsion I obtained Image 89, which seemed rather wing-like. I was taken by its naivety.
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