Gathering the pieces I have created on project 3 and reflecting on them I thought there was a room for further improvement in order to be more happy with the outcome .
I wanted to give more texture in certain surfaces and in order to achieve that I looked back on a previous experiment I worked on project 2.
In that specific case I had wrapped coins with yarn on a piece of own knitted fabric.
I was really happy with the result , but because the coins were heavy I wanted to take them out and I had cut the area around them which had created a nice circular motif.
Following this idea I had sourced lightweight buttons along with a nice pink sequin yarn as well as a thick wire .
I had hanged my fabric collection in order to be able to have a better overview of my collection as well as I was able to see how the garment on each sample was draping as it was hanging free.
PIECE #1
I’ve used my buttons in order to run a continuous single yarn so it is not glued onto my sample.
It has been used to pull set-loose certain areas as well as to distort them.
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Sample number 2 includes my coin inspiration piece with the cutouts been placed on the side of a tea dyed fabric surface, with a stiff and solid wire in addition of the embellishment and the the garment deformation playing the ”exoskeleton” role as it is keeping the fabric still and steady.
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My Sunflower pot with organza and a 10 gauge floral jacquard background.
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Hand embroidered 5 gauge tulip buds along with tape yarn and lace with the buttons been individually wrapped this time .
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Sunflower finger knitted bouquet , with the button wrapping formations creating a rectangular frame .
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Various fabrics layering with warm glue mark making.
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I have managed to feed the solid wire through my black band channel and then I had run it around the garment in order to pleat the band and stabilize the brushed fabric a lot more.
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My fern design.
Because of the fabric layout it wasn’t very stable on the hanger .
I had used buttons to distort the right bottom corner having wrapped long sequin threads .
This is where it concludes.
Building my own collection was a journey which had started in a mainstream way but then it had taken off to be a very personal piece of effort,a wonderful encounter, a stressful initially but relieving eventually experience.
Working on my own knitted fabrics gave me more connection and meaning to my study and using them as surfaces to build onto , thinking out of the box and re inventing them gave me a very useful experience.
Hope in the future I will be able to work towards this direction a lot more and be able to learn and work on more exciting projects.
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