Fashion & Textiles

April 2013

I have had to projects for my Fashion & Textiles course this year. The first project was to create a secret agent pocket involving my personal interests. The second project was to create a sleeve of a garment which involved my personal items that would represent as special value to me.

Project 1 - Secret Agent Pocket

Kickboxing is a hobby of mine and I thought this would be a good place to start. So I gathered information I could use to start my project.

Sketchbook Pages

 Throughout my sketchbook I experimented with different methods on how I could transfer an image onto a piece of fabric. I tried heat transfer by ironing on an image onto my fabric (pictures 1&2) then I also tried free machine embroidery on two of the images to see what effect it would give the transfer image. I tried the hot wax Batik (picture 4) which I dyed the fabric for 20 minutes for the wax to show up. I also tried Image Maker Transfer where I spread a thick paste on to an image and set it down on fabric for 15 minutes then applied water to make the image reappear (picture 4). I experimented with the screen print, I drew an image, placed it on a screen in order for me to spread ink through.

Sample pieces

Free Machine Embroidery

Free Machine Embroidery

Screen Print & Free Machine Embroidery

Project 2 - Wear your heart on your Sleeve

In this project I used items that were personal and held special value to me. I brought these into college in a little mesh bag. Items which included a necklace with my name on it, a bracelet I used to wear when I was a baby, rings from grandparents and great grandparents.

I photocopied my little mesh bag to see what experiments I could do with them before I started building my garment.
 My garment was made the materials organza and denim, organza for the front and back panel and denim to make the actual sleeve itself. 

A light blue organza for the front and back panel and white denim as the sleeve. As pictured above.

I tried free machine embroidery, screen print and combining both.

Printmaking

April 2013
                                 

I threw a dart at the world map and it landed on Iraq, this was where my project started, research on Iraq. I started this by locating Iraq on a map and drawing out the continent the country it is based in.  I also located the Iraqi flag and the famous Golden Mosque which was blew up in 2007.

 

It seems the current affairs status focuses on war within Iraq,  I based it along these lines.  

In the picture below, I have used a transfer print where I placed strong white emulsion paint, placed an image on top for fifteen minutes which then I could peel the image back off and it would have printed on my page.

On my final information page about Iraq, I can created a view finder frame. I selected sections of my page to sketch from.

Drypoint Printing - I did this method by using a metal plate and a Drypoint nail to sketch an image which then I applied ink across the plate and used a scrub to get rid of the excess ink. I then placed this through an electric printing press which produced very good detail. 

Collagraph- I took a piece of cardboard which will be use to create a tank. I used different types of sticky tape to create levels of texture, I carved cardboard to make the wheels. I used sandpaper as the main body of the tank which created texture and shadows with all the colours I used.