The collection started as research into different famous textile artists and Sonia Delaunay was one of the ones suggested to me. I then took the research and created a inspiration board of some of her paintings and textile work. I analyzed her work and created a color palette that pulled colors from her work that I thought represented colors that she used often.

After the inspiration board and the color palette was created, I painted motifs inspired by her style of mostly geometric shapes but also took some inspiration from quilts. I wanted to motifs to have a slightly painterly feel to them like she had within her art. Once I painted all of the motifs, I scanned the motifs into Adobe Photoshop and cleaned the motif edges. I then decided that I wanted to also have only outlines of all of them to make patterns with just the outlines of the motifs. I did this in Photoshop by tracing all of the motifs in another document. Once I had all of the different motifs created and cleaned, it was now time to create patterns within Photoshop. I created three different patterns. I created a tossed half drop repeat with the original motifs, a stripe with the original motifs, and another tossed half drop with the outline motifs. In the end I decided to go with the two tossed designs to be apart of the final collection.

For the handwoven designs, I wanted to incorporate more of the quilting inspiration because I feel that is how this collection had developed of being more inspired by. This fabric was created on a 16 harness dobby loom and the warp was threaded in a pointed design using all 16 harnesses. These designs were created in the Weave Point program. I wanted the design to have a patchwork look and to get that look I sectioned my warp into even sections of color. I then made sure my design would fit within the color blocks as evenly as I could get them. This took some trial and error of lengthening the treadling to get the blocks as square as possible.