Creative Textiles

I wanted to show a few more pieces I did yesterday in Creative Textiles.  I had my first assessment for this course yesterday, and thankfully I passed! We had to produce our moodboard, a design plan, and a minimum of 3 paper pieces (using painting and sewing techniques) and 3 textile pieces (dying, batik, devore, etc).

This one I knocked up whilst sitting have a cup of tea in the canteen.  It’s photographic paper which I drew on, then I added coloured ink and ran it under the tap, to let the ink drip off the paper.  I added more ink and repeated the process several times.  I am thinking that some of the patterns can be knitted into a textile piece, such at the chain pattern running through the centre.  That’s very easy to do.  Thankfully, I’ve been knitting since I was a child so it should take me too long to do.  I can add in stitching using the sewing machine to get the branch pattern.  Not sure how that will turn out but I’ll give it a go.

I showed this piece the day before yesterday, but I added some stitching into it and covered in PVA glue and liquid latex, which will protect the fabric dye.

This piece was created using devore material which I soaked in liquid latex.  I blowed dried it then covered it in layers of fabric dye.  Now it feels like a stretchy latex material, but the patterns on it are quite interesting close up.

This final piece was made using wallpaper.  Again I used the latex but I thickened it and poured over the underside of the wallpaper, then poured inks over and brushed with some dye. The inks and dyes tend to stick really well to latex and creates interesting patterns. I really like the effect so I have managed to nab some more paper from college to practise on.