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Fibre Patterns: August 2014

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Wednesday, 20 August 2014. Tex1 Assignment 3 Project 6 - Manipulating fabric - prep and drawings. There are also yarns in similar materials, woolly tweedy yarns - strong and weak, fluffy or smooth - silky silks and synthetics, strong linens thick and thin, paper yarn, sewing and embroidery threads, ribbon, homemade cords, basically all manner of things that can be used to stitch, knot, wrap, weave, loop and so on. Stage 2 Developing ideas. Blue feathers in coloured pencil and watered down inktense. Here'...

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Fibre Patterns: June 2014

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Monday, 30 June 2014. Tex 1 Ass 2 Project 4 Printing and painting on fabric. I had a great Saturday of just experimenting with printing, stamping and painting on fabric. It was almost as if I needed to get something out of my system, having felt blocked at times during this module. On that day there was no ties to designs, but just spontaneous mark making and impulsive compositions. In no particular order, this is what came out of that day:. Here a print using a large-scale bubble wrap, using a variety o...

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Fibre Patterns: Japanese 'tapestry'

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Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Here's an example of an obi woven in this way. And another in an abstract floral design. So, the pieces I have that are made in tsuzure technique are all obis. There are excellent videos on Youtube that shows how obi are mounted and folded in dressing in a traditional Japanese way. I have selected one on how to tie a Nagoya obi, which you can watch here. And here's another showing how to tie a fukuro obi. Short film of a weaver demonstrating tsuzure weaving. And this time there w...

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Fibre Patterns: May 2015

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Saturday, 30 May 2015. Just a couple of photos to show the site again:. And here some of my sketchbook (the concertina one required by the course):. I also have another sketchbook which I used while on holiday. Here I practiced still life using blue and grey glass objects, and the second image is of freer work using the randomness of the pigments applied and drawing with pen on top. More marks for the sketchbook course - continued. Testing printing with a spongy object that came with a Christmas present:.

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Fibre Patterns: June 2015

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Sunday, 28 June 2015. Reflections on feedback received. The OCA asks us to show how we may have reflected or acted on feedback received from our tutor. I thought that rather than pasting all the feedback in from all assignments, I would comment on the feedback elements that had substantive contents, so that I can work out whether these will be useful for the last assignment. Feedback from assignment 1-3. Overall I think the feedback I get is positive. Tutors (I have had two on this course), have. You hav...

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Fibre Patterns: Sketchbook - 3rd part

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Tuesday, 21 July 2015. Sketchbook - 3rd part. In the last section of the sketchbook course the challenge is to think about the work of an artist chosen from a list of various artists who work in textiles or in sculpture, including Caroline Broadhead, Eva Hesse and Suzumi Noda. I chose to look at the latter two. Noda is a director of an art school in Osaka, but is also an artist practitioner with a keen sense of the changing ecology of the world, hence her interest in recycling materials. Hesse’s wo...

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Fibre Patterns: October 2014

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Monday, 20 October 2014. Well now, one may ask - why haven't I been able much textile work recently? In fact, apart from what I describe on a previous blog on visits to London, and stash building exercise buying fleece, yarn and dye recently (October), I have not actually been able to get into making for the course in the last 4 weeks. A shame, as I have plenty of ideas, have decided to look at trees in some way for the final assign. In my steps towards that final assignment on this course. Anyway, my fr...

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Fibre Patterns: July 2015

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Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Here's an example of an obi woven in this way. And another in an abstract floral design. So, the pieces I have that are made in tsuzure technique are all obis. There are excellent videos on Youtube that shows how obi are mounted and folded in dressing in a traditional Japanese way. I have selected one on how to tie a Nagoya obi, which you can watch here. And here's another showing how to tie a fukuro obi. Short film of a weaver demonstrating tsuzure weaving. And this time there w...

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Fibre Patterns: September 2014

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Sunday, 28 September 2014. A September trip to Bruges. We went to Bruges for a short holiday over the weekend from 18th September to 22nd. There was a quick stop for a few hours in Bruxelles - I went to see half of the Royal Museum of Art and History as there was not much time. I do wish I had had more time, the ethnographic collections looked very good. Interesting to see this change in style between the renaissance observation and representation and this theatrical energy of a later generation. Stobart...