At the beginning of the week, I
focused on trying to finish off my weaving as quickly as possible due to time
constraints. Although I knew these were an issue I was worried about completing
all the weaving I had planned in time. Luckily, everything was finished and the
new samples I had made were a nice contrast and very uplifting in colour
compared to my earlier ones. I also worked with an idea of floats as a way to
attach things (ideally bags) to a garment using these floats. They have since
proved very popular and if I had more time, I would have liked to develop this
further in other colourways.
Mid-week, once the line-up was
compiled together and finished by the fashion students, we all began to colour
block the designs using our own styles. After we had all contributed and
brought our ideas together, it was decided that my designs were the strongest
and best showed our textile samples on the garments. Therefore I then spent the
next two days painting these out for our final line up ready for the exhibition
the following Friday. We all agreed that the techniques I was using really made
the line up much stronger and complimented Claudia’s illustrations really well.
In addition to this, we tried to include
everyone’s textile samples in the best way possible without overloading the
collection with pattern, with serious consideration to placement and colour
based on our research and progress.
A big element of textiles for me
is through lots of drawing and mark making and is something I consider to play
a big factor into my personal development. I have found that I have neglected
it more than usual within this brief and so have tried to be aware of this and
bring it back when appropriate.
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