Fashion Project

Tutorial with Jill

November 26, 2015

Reassurance is what I needed to help me keep pushing my ideas forward. I know I need to get my final designs done ASAP as the fashion project needs to be started soon. I told Jill I was worried about my time management and how to put my designs in to repeat as I wanted to stay away from digital printing.

For placement overview:
-Small info about Aviva and the rest critical analysis

For the interior project:
-wallpaper- look at claire coles and look at Charlotte Abraham
-think about context?- cafe/corporate space/home/audience- adolescent/children etc
-To help me with repeat... Photocopy motifs onto acetate then flip/adjust/layer up/half drop etc
-create a complex repeat by adding depth and level- add background using subtle marks from drawings etc
-make the samples a collection so they flow together

For the Fashion project:
-Begin drawings for this project- continue with shells but explore in depth
-Indigo dyeing- could experiment with discharge and resists
-Try to give myself a title for my fashion collection- like the lecturer today who worked at USP- Jane Kellock
-Look into mending/patching 
-Go to study centre- mending/darning etc
-Boro Boro book by Nuno Collection
-Try sashiko stitching with fine threads or metallic threads and explore different stitches


Interiors Project

Devore experimentations

November 26, 2015

After sublimation printing on linen polyester I decided to make the most of the double fibre fabric. If I devore over some of the colour, the colour will come through brighter and more vibrant (in theory).

I tried this, after two attempts, the devore visibly worked. It wasn't very obvious which disheartened me because of the length of time it took me to do. Doing this has reminded me how devore works and  now I want to use it again in my work as it is a simple and effective process to do.

I hand painted it on but I could possibly screen print it or block print with it to combine processes and methods??


Left top is a sample with no devore
Right top and bottom has devore on some parts (brighter and more vivid)