Bradford Textile Brief

My two tutor crit this week has helped me consider how to present to a group of people from different textile areas. Although we had a choice of displaying a digital presentation I chose not to, I thought it would be difficult to demonstrate my knit textures through a digital presentation as apposed to passing my samples around. But from this experience I feel that the students who had their work on the screen whilst discussing decisions made it much easier to visualize as the listener and also keep up to date with what the presenter is discussing compared to waiting for a sample to be passed. This is something I will improve on in my next presentation.

I have created a range of different knitted samples from my visual research into deconstruction of natural elements, communicating colour on colour, repeat shape, use of material and dubied knitting techniques.

Drop stitch dubied sample

My samples represent the elements from my drawings and colour pallet in my visual research but to improve on this my samples should have been much bigger to demonstrate scale more accurately.

Also my feedback was the use of colour could have been cleaner with more exact shades from my contextual research. I feel that this is something I was aware I was struggling with as I would normally have a much more subtle colour pallet.

I am pleased with the use of PVC when bonded onto my knit but feel it doesn’t work as well when in between the double bedded fabric. This led me on to look into Helen Lawrences use of PVC in her knitwear range shown here.

Helen Lawrence Autumn/Winter 2014

This and the short trimmings project we completed looking into the technical of garment making and finishes has inspired me to use shaping when sampling. This is my chosen fabric for the Bradford Textile brief.

Chosen Bradford textile design sample