3. Woven in Wales... traditional and contemporary designs …… image courtesy Melin Tregwynt

4. Producing iconic products by using traditional constructional skills. images courtesy Melin Tregwynt

5. Mulberry Margaret Howells Comme des Garcons Birkenstock Sandersons Designers Guild Muji Descamps Heals Conrans Producing products for: images courtesy Melin Tregwynt

6. Product lines

8. All the cloth produced by Melin Tregwynt is woven using one of number of weaving patterns.

9. Warp threads Run the length of the loom Weaving Thread is wrapped around the length of a loom, this is called the warp thread. Another thread called the weft is woven under and over the warp thread. Weft threads Run from left (weft) to right

10. weft thread over warp weft thread under warp weft thread over warp weft thread under warp Weaving The simplest weaving pattern is a plain weave. How does a cloth get woven? warp thread

11. images courtesy Melin Tregwynt MondoMadison Luna St David’s Cross Knot garden Marina Rounded cross Carew Task look in the Melin Tregwynt website to find the design influences/inspiration on each of the above designs. Modern graphic spot 60’s Early Shaker Retro 50’s 30’s Bauhaus Blazer strips Weave styles

12. Task : using Melin Tregwynt as your inspiration source, design an innovative pattern

13. colourways of the Mondo range

14. Using the “Mondo” design as an inspiration source for patterns

15. Further development of the Mondo inspired design. extracting shapes from the design

16. Continued development of the Mondo inspired design. moving the circles to make crescent shapes in the design

17. Continued development of the Mondo inspired design. creating repeat patterns from the designs.

18. Recap of the design development. Inspiration source circles and lines extracting shapes from the circles creating crescent shapes repeat pattern

19. Task – develop a pattern using a any of the following as a starting point. circle and a square circle and a trianglecircle and a cross circle and a hexagon

20. Task – develop a pattern using a square and circle.

21. Task – develop a pattern using a square and triangle. simple repeat pattern alternating the direction of the triangle

22. Task – develop a pattern using a square and cross. simple repeat pattern alternating the two different shapes.

23. the background of the company videos related to weaving amusing videos related to wool and weaving. Visit the Melin Tregwynt’s web site A wide range of interesting YouTube extracts are available on the Melin Tregwynt website ranging from:

24. The largest picnic rug in the world 40 metres X 44 metres Made in 3 weeks Fast turnaround of high quality bespoke products Find out what happened to this huge rug – view the advert and see the rug. Log into YouTube – picnic rug.