ok I changed my mind and I'm starting a new one

Catch up

I had Weave and Knit as my first technical blocks (this blog post is quite a few weeks overdue). Here are some photos I took/drawings of my objects to help inspire the two blocks & a couple of the samples I ended up with. My collection of objects varied quite a bit so there wasn't an obvious connection between them but I realised they all have some kind of dark history/story behind them which intrigued me. I think weave worked really well with the notes of money I had in my collection because the intricate patterns on the notes resemble the patterns made by weaving. Although whenever I tried to make my own pattern from shapes in my drawings/photos, it would come out completely different, so I don't think I quite got my head around the technical side to weave. It was good when you see your pattern/design emerging but I found being on the loom got a bit tedious after a while which I think is why I enjoyed the off-loom, more hands-on parts more such as wrapping objects As for knit, I really enjoyed being able to experiment with lots of different techniques - especially when it got to making things 3D and chunkier, although it would have been nice to have had more time to play around and practise a bit more with the techniques learnt.

Rough Guide

The first little project we were given allowed us get to know the people on our course and, for those who weren't too familiar with London, it let them get to know the area a bit better. We got put into groups and got given an area around London to inspire us to create a sketchbook that represents that area. Then one page from each of our books would be picked to go into an overall book that we would all get at the end of the project.
The area the group I was in got given Brick Lane/Hoxton/Spitalfields, which we were all quite happy about as there's a diverse range of interesting things that are in those locations. Above are (not very good quality scans of) some pages from my sketchbook.

BA Textiles

I've finished my foundation course and I'm now doing BA Textiles at Chelsea, hopefully I keep this blogging up a bit better than I did at foundation!

Aleksander Tivodar - Bone sculptures

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Katie Eary S/S 10

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other collections
I was researching more into bones and skeletons within fashion and I came across Katie Eary's Spring/Summer 2010 collection which I find quite amazing. The bones and skeletons, which usually look quite delicate, are made to look rich, strong and almost like armour by being gold and connected by chains. Also the torn tights the models are made to wear on their arms and legs have images of bones and veins and make the models look like walking skeletons. Although, the fragility of these tights, highlighted by the fact they are ripped and have holes in, contrasts vastly with the strong gold skeletal pieces and the thick, bright red rope shoulder pieces.

DSquared2's skeletal shoes