Week 3 : Monday 24th March 2014 UNIT X

Week 3 
Monday 24th March 2014 
UNIT X



I have been in discussion with a graphic design student who I will collaborate with to design a website and business cards and digital prints, enabling myself to achieve an outward facing approach and to reach new contexts and audiences.

My first experiments last week of digitally printed samples did not work as too much started to happen in each sample, it was busy, complicated and did not portray my concept of absence, emotion and memory. This was due to many factors including fabric choice and colour of original samples. This week I have been focusing on scanning in objects rather than flat photographs. Taking 3D - 2D to create depth within the samples.

 I have revised my fabric choice and printed on crepe de chine fabric, the weight of the fabric combined with the scanned 3D objects rather than just photographs creates an illusion of past and object. 

Scans of materials and objects I have collected from my family home. These objects mean something to myself and the emotional link contained within them is something I am focusing on abstracting.
above: old threads and shoe laces.

Below: old wallpaper from my family home I have stitched into, scanned, edited in Photoshop and then digitally printed.

Below: old flooring, placed on the scanner and edited in Photoshop.

Using a more monotone colour pallet rather than many colours like the week before is portraying my concept and combined with a sheer fabric it evokes the feeling of the past or something being old and worn.

For this project in-particular these samples are being focused towards a collection of fashion scarves. I have been researching textile artists whom work in a similar context. Weston Earth.. create bespoke fashion scarves by combining eternal qualities of nature with the latest technology. Focusing on the moment created in the natural rocks and minerals they focus on re- creating that moment on fabric.


Liberty of London. (2014) Weston Scarves,light grey cacoxenite silk scarf. [online] [date accessed 26th March 2014] http://www.liberty.co.uk/fcp/product/Liberty//Light-Grey-Cacoxenite-Silk-Scarf/103265