This week is mainly about making fabric, which is different from the profile experiment I did first in the last project. I plan to make fabric first and then develop profile. For me, the most important thing is to develop colour board first. I first extracted red, the main color in my research, and then made a colour board by choosing orange and pink for some extensions.
In class, I knitted two test fabrics based on the extracted elements, lace, melting wax wool and wool I made, and tried them on small mannequin. At the same time, Giles suggested that I could use the red flash glue from the previous research and the gauze used to bind the ballerina after injury.
When I went home, I was trying to figure out how to put the flowers in the fabric. At first, I tried to wrap the dried flowers with wool, but the flowers just crumbled when I picked them up with tweezers. Therefore, I did the experiment, and epoxy resin was used to seal the dried flowers and then fixed them on the fabric by sewing or pasting. Combined with the gauze, I tore the warp and weft lines of the gauze and then added the dried flowers made by epoxy resin. I used to draw sketches before making the finished fabric, which could help the overall presentation after the completion of the design.
Large pieces of knitting sample are made over the next few days. Some also use weaving. In order to better present the red flash glue, I simulate it as wool and draw the warp and weft on the woven fabric.