Continuing the great studio clean-out. Another carton of 20-year-old fabrics is going to GoodWill, along with 2 bags of knitting yarns. In the past month I have made two pairs of pants with fabric from my stash, and woven five shawls, further depleting the handspun stash. The space gained is amazing. With a clean worktable, I was able to unpack a 2-month-old shipment of paper from Talas and tear down paper into signatures for four books. Whew!
The timing is—well—timely. I've been invited to participate in an exhibition of artist books, and for this project I think I will do another book of woven pages, along the lines of Letters From My Uncle. I'd like to weave a text in double twill, readable from both sides of the page. For my text I've chosen a wonderful (wonderful to me—you may not agree) I've been saving in my junk mail folder. It's an internet scam, undoubtedly, and contains the most amazing flowery language. It begins: Good day to you my friend. It is understandable that you might be a little bit apprehensive because you do not know me but I have a lucrative business proposal of mutual interest to share with you.
Here's a color simulation of my preliminary file, front and back. There will be three signatures, six pages.
This morning I wove a test strip for aspect ratio, and took a quick snap of it with my cell phone.
I'll have to do some adjustments. Width 13 7/8" , 880 ends, therefore 63.42 epi. Weft 112 ppi. 112 divided by 63.42 is approx. 1.77, which is the new aspect ratio. The original file is 1576 pixels long. Multiply that by 1.77 to get 2789. I'm rounding that down to 2784 so that it's a multiple of 24, which is the size of my pattern preset. So I will resize my file (Nearest Neighbor method in Photoshop) to 2784 pixels high.
Aside: My blog is my working notebook, so please forgive the extra details today. I lose my notebooks all the time, but so far I haven't lost my blog!
To resume: I'm also going to invert the lefthand half of the file, so that the signatures when folded will all have the main text on the recto and the secondary text on the verso of the pages.
If you'd like to learn more about using Photoshop to design for jacquard or dobby weaving, refer to The Woven Pixel and The Liftplan Connection in the sidebar.