Monday, 2 January 2012
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
More Indigo Samples
My second sample and interpretation using embroidery and beading embellishment for Indigo project inspired by illustrations taken from a Botanical book of dead rose centres.
Using Trapunto Techniques/applique, beading and a bit of embroidery for this 3rd sample. I am not really sure quite what to do with this sample, I don't really feel happy with the results and feel that it's still missing something......?
''My Dress Design/Toile''
This is my dress toile, a mock-up made in calico before the actual dress is cut and made in a more luxurious fabric. As part of my brief for Indigo I had to design a capsule collection consisting of 12 outfits and out of the 12 designs I had to choose one garment in which I felt would challenge me to make up and this is the dress I picked. The toile so far is still not completed yet, there is a lot of hand-stitching in areas in which I will have have to alter to make it sit in position better. The dress has a centre button stand placket to get in and out of dress and it has sheer fabric around waist area at front and back and around the neckline. The dress is suppose to have short sleeves which i haven't had the chance to make up yet, either this will get completed or not I am not sure. In the next few days I will have to start stitching the lining to the dress to make it look professionally made. The only element of this dress I have found diffcult is in smoothing out the curves/shape of the skirt to make it work well with the bodice. Perhaps for the skirt I could think about flared panels, or inverted pleats to make it fit well with the shaped waistline because I am not very happy with how wonky the button-hole placket sits over the skirt.
Close up Back view of Dress
Monday, 5 December 2011
My ''Pink'' dress!
This is my pink dress in which I designed and made in the last 3 evenings during the week. Recently I have not been very focused on my work within my studio/sketchbook, and wanted to break away from it and set my mind on other things. I had also planed a much needed ''girl's'' night out and while looking around in the high street shops I couldn't find anything remotely attractive in which I wanted to pay £40-£50 for. Most of the dresses looked cheap, and the colours were so dull and boring so I set myself a chllenge in making myself a simple dress but in a luxurious fabric and vibrant colour to wear. I am quite pleased with how the dress has turned out, and it's made me excited to want to make more dresses in goregous fabrics. However, this will have to be post-poned for a while now and I will have to get back into making more samples for Indigo. 
Monday, 14 November 2011
Embroidery of Botanical Roses
This is an embroidery sample in which I started on Monday the 7th of November and have only just finished it on the Saturday the 12th of November. I have been slaving away embroidering this piece to make it look like 3-D embroidered lace on sheer silk fabric. I have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of completing this sample, it has taken time and a lot of persaverence, but the result has turned out better than what I had expected. By completing this sample it has enabled me to be more proactive about my work and it has encouraged me to continue creating and experimenting with emboridery. Saturday, 5 November 2011
''Women''
I am in the process of nearly completing another book...woohoo! The book I am engrossed in at the moment is called ''In Her Own Image'' which is about women working within the art, be it poets, writers, painters, pottery or stitching. The book has given me a real insight to the prejudice and the criticism of women from the Victorian era to what can still be seen within present age. Women juggled work, household keeping, being a wife, a mother and were never given acclaim for what they did making, ''being an artist'' almost unattainable. Women have always been steroetyped as being the unintelligent, uneducated of that of man. There has always been conflicts and preassure in what women should and shouldn't be.
Women should be proud of her self worth and equally respected by men and of society within all aspects of art. In saying this, I feel that as a single mother and full-time student finding one's self worth is a journey that takes you through all the hurdles of life and what you experience and take out is what you express through one's work. Women of the past have fought, endured and laboured much in defining themselves as not only being a woman but also in being a ''women artist'' and in todays age these preassures still exist or are not understood.
I have learnt through the years and more so recently the reason for why I am returning to the real art of making things by hand. The reason being, is that beautiful techniques in embroidery, lace-making, tailoring and Haute Couture has always excited me, these skills have always held me in complete awe and wonder of it's infinate details and textures. For me in wanting to learn the techniques has always been a desire to accomplish and achieve and in capturing and learning the history of the lives of those who worked to their deaths for it and were never recognised or given acclaim for is something I suppose reflects my personal feelings and ideas. For me the works that have been laboured over and whereby blood has been spilt has much more meaning to me then that of making things or designing things for mass production. Designing and making things for mass production has never appealed to me and a lot of is to do with the fact that I once lived in poverty and tasted what life could have been if I was not blessed with amazing adoptive parents. Even now I am still living a life that is not dependant of my own income and it's not easy. Over the years while studying this degree I have learnt that poverty is everywhere, you only have to go out your front door or down the next street and you will see it and this is what politics, status and the greed of men have bought into the world and as a young artist I do not wish to abide into the network that to be a designer within fashion and textiles/artist I have to conform to being a perfectionist at all levels of skills just to get a job by the time I graduate. I feel these ethics are wrong because it's not educating people to understand their own history, their own meanings and self worth behind the history and the need for making and why art of all types should be given more credit rather than what is percieved through greed.
Women should be proud of her self worth and equally respected by men and of society within all aspects of art. In saying this, I feel that as a single mother and full-time student finding one's self worth is a journey that takes you through all the hurdles of life and what you experience and take out is what you express through one's work. Women of the past have fought, endured and laboured much in defining themselves as not only being a woman but also in being a ''women artist'' and in todays age these preassures still exist or are not understood.
I have learnt through the years and more so recently the reason for why I am returning to the real art of making things by hand. The reason being, is that beautiful techniques in embroidery, lace-making, tailoring and Haute Couture has always excited me, these skills have always held me in complete awe and wonder of it's infinate details and textures. For me in wanting to learn the techniques has always been a desire to accomplish and achieve and in capturing and learning the history of the lives of those who worked to their deaths for it and were never recognised or given acclaim for is something I suppose reflects my personal feelings and ideas. For me the works that have been laboured over and whereby blood has been spilt has much more meaning to me then that of making things or designing things for mass production. Designing and making things for mass production has never appealed to me and a lot of is to do with the fact that I once lived in poverty and tasted what life could have been if I was not blessed with amazing adoptive parents. Even now I am still living a life that is not dependant of my own income and it's not easy. Over the years while studying this degree I have learnt that poverty is everywhere, you only have to go out your front door or down the next street and you will see it and this is what politics, status and the greed of men have bought into the world and as a young artist I do not wish to abide into the network that to be a designer within fashion and textiles/artist I have to conform to being a perfectionist at all levels of skills just to get a job by the time I graduate. I feel these ethics are wrong because it's not educating people to understand their own history, their own meanings and self worth behind the history and the need for making and why art of all types should be given more credit rather than what is percieved through greed.
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