Leather project final piece #1

nearly done :) 4 more pieces to go!

leather

Here are few more technical samples. 

Now I'm going to start relating them to fashion/interior design.

embroidered weave pattern

weaving painted leather 

leather weaving with fringes 

leather weaving-twisted in the middle and stitched on top

leather smocking

leather and crochet

3D sample

candles + leather = ???

 

playing with leather

and making small samples..

We're using real leather, so we have responsibility of producing something which make even animals smile  :) so that we thank to them.

cutwork&small stitches

fingers knitting

leather project

After 3 weeks of holiday, we all came back to uni on this Monday. The new project is called Leather project, and there's a subtitle with it —Rework Reinvent Regenerate. The project brief is making innovative products (fabric) with leather scrap provided by Scottish leather company.

The first impression of this project for me was confusing, because we have to decide concept of our own, and it should be related to the previous projects and also the project brief. Now I'm still kind of confused, but better as I decided my concept. My concept for this project is chequered patterns, so far, and it is quite fun to make them with leather. There are photos of my primary ideas of the design which are made with paper..

i am from japan

I can get no satisfaction

There is a selected collection of my printed fabric. 

I haven't counted the number of my development samples during I was printing, because I've been in a rush for a few days before the deadline and I was afraid of realising that I got only few development samples. Finally, I found out that I produced 22 development samples for bloom project.

Printing is more difficult than the other disciplines in terms of technique, colour and accuracy. It requires you to choose relevant fabric, technique, dye and so on. If you choose wrong, obviously something wrong will come out.

heat transfer printing on cotton

pigment opaque printing on gray jersey 

heat transfer printing on polyester

heat transfer and exposed screen printing on polyester

heat transfer and pigment printing on cotton

heat transfer and pigment printing on cotton

heat transfer printing on cotton

heat transfer and exposed screen printing on cotton

pigment opaque printing on black velvet

Print workshop

Technical workshop has started this week. I was afraid of screen printing, because I struggled with it last year. The first few technical samples (pigment printing) were okay because the mixture is quite thick. On the other hand, gummy mixture for procion dye is runnier compared to pigment, so it's difficult to print and I was almost reminded the last year's nightmare.

Although print workshop is hard for me in a way, I do enjoy printing. There are so many interesting equipment and  materials there, and all of them excite me. Especially heat transfer printing is my favorite .. it is able to transfer the texture quite precisely. Because it mirrors, I thought I need to beware of it when I want to design asymmetry shapes.

After the tutorial on Monday, I realised how long I've ignored drawing and concentrated to technical sampling instead. Working on both sides (designing & sampling) is a still big problem for me.

This week was busier than normal, so I faced to my bad time managing skill. Tuesday and Wednesday (when I usually spend on catching up studio work), has needed to be used for essay writing and the fashion show, so my studio work has been standstill. Despite it, fashion show helping was definitely good experience as I could watch dresses very close. Fashion show itself was stunning too—now I'm excited to the next year, and a discipline I want to get in is clear in my mind.

Procion screen painting

flock

Heat transfer