Woven Optical Illlusions
Weavers have studied visual effects for many years. But this presentation takes the idea much further. Dive deep into the world of optical illusions to find the design nuggets that give the essence of the effect to translate successfully into weaving. Explore illusory contours, invisible colours and shapes, interlacing effects of all shapes, sizes and weave structures, bulges, twisted cords, visual depth, skewed squares, and eye-popping images. These fun effects appear in different weave structures and colour experiments, including multi-colour taqueté, Summer & Winter, Beiderwand, deflected double weave, double weave, colour-and-weave, shadow weave, diversified plain weave, twills, plaited twills, supplementary warps and wefts.
Based on the book, written by Stacey Harvey-Brown and Katharina Kronig, Stacey brings her passion to life as she explains the ‘how-to’ of the illusions that were explored and asks questions that will leave the audience itching to dive further into creating their own woven optical illusions.
Thank you so much for sharing your fascinating presentation on woven optical illusions with our guild today. Your work was truly captivating and you explained the ideas in a way that was both inspiring and accessible.
Thank you for a wonderful program. The Woven Optical Illusions are amazing-inspiring. I also appreciate the encouragement to explore our ideas and weave structures deeply. I believe I heard you say, “Push them to their limits.”
Thank you so much for your presentation! It was a fabulously informative presentation and several members went out of their way to say thank you for getting you as a speaker and for this topic.