I'M BACK!!

So I know I haven't posted on my blog for a while however I have a lot more time on my hands due to the current situation. I've been spending this time at home sending out designs to companies to print as I unfortunately couldn't take the Jacquard or telex loom home lol!

I thought that I would share some of the printed work I have had done at the moment for the intended use of upholstery or interior decor, for high end interiors.

Some of these fabrics were printed onto a poly-cotton blend and some on marbled velvet to add that luxurious high end stamp on them! Im so pleased with the outcomes and it has helped me out so much and taken so much stress off my shoulders knowing I could still get some of my designs printed while I can't be at uni and still have to meet deadlines, luckily I handed in my dissertation in January so that stress is already out the way!

Fancy Foiling..

To create a more high end, luxurious feel to my collection for this project, I decided to experiment with various ways of adding gold into my colour scheme, rather than use a gold/ yellow yarn I wanted to add a vibrant gold foil effect to make my samples stand out. I have tried the paper foiler as shown here, those with little gold and larger scale motifs I found have been more successful and have helped me develop ideas for future foiling in the print studio. I enjoyed experimenting with this idea as it had given me a clearer idea of how I would like these designs to sit behind or merge into my other designs, either for wallpaper, or to use the traditional foiling techniques onto woven or printed samples in the future.

Texel Time!

So a couple of weeks ago I started creating woven samples on the telex loom, these samples are intended for throws, or cushion cover samples. As a starting point I decided to create smaller motifs, as a practice as I have never used this loom, and played with textural yarns as something I wanted to keep as a design aspect throughout my project. I also looked at various colours that I have used within my colour scheme.

I have found that some of these samples are successful and I would like to work on them to create an even more successful outcome.

I like the end result of those samples with a more textured yarn, rather than the finer yarns, and I liked those with a fuller pattern to the sample, rather than those with motifs In rows. I created these as a simpler coordinate to my busy jacquard samples and am enjoying experimenting on the loom.