Design Collections

FIRST YEAR

My first year collection is split into two projects. The first is a series of illustrations and computer aided reapeat pattern designs. This was the development of my own personal style, a focus on plant life and projected toward the interior design market. The second project was influenced by texture and colour. I pulled my inspiration from the walls and surfaces of the streets and buildings of Florence, Italy. This project was directed toward the use of fabric and threads to create designs.

FLORAL INTERIORS

Computer aided design using my own sketch to create a repeat pattern

Sketch of hydrangea flowers and leaves

Computer aided design using my own sketch to create a repeat pattern

Ink and fine line pen sketch of plant on a textured background made from masking tape and real petals

Ink print using a real leaf

Overlapping sketches in fine line pen and pencil of two different plants

FIRENZE

Dyed fabric using powder dye sprinkled onto the fabric then water added

Overlapping of fabric and paper colour sample. Dyed fabric using powder dye sprinkled onto the fabric then water added, addition of contrasting pale thread

Dyed fabric using powder dye sprinkled onto the fabric then water added

Overlapping fabrics with colour and stitch to create texture. Top fabric dyed using powder dye sprinkled onto the fabric then water added Bottom fabric layer dyed by being placed underneath a secondary dyed fabric whilst drying, giving a sporadic use of colour Hand stitch used both densely in clumps of French knots and contrasting straight stitch.

Overlapping fabrics with colour and stitch to create texture. Both layers dyed using powder dye sprinkled onto the fabric then water added Straight stitch in contrasting pale colour to create texture.

SECOND YEAR - FIRST SEMESTER

My pracical work in first semester of second year is a collection which was centred around a brief that directed me to work with the idea of fabrics which could be used for costume design in the ballet. I had to focus on the ideas of femininity and fragility in the fabric as well as its robustness and ability to be strong where it counts - where the fabric is man handled the most in juuxtaposition to areas of flowing freedom. In this collection, I worked on two seperate short term projects, the first was knit and the second was about taking my own direction in the manipulation of fabric through stitch and applique methods.

When looking at this brief for both projects, my main source of inspiration was the human form, the natural lines and curves made by both the body's movements and stature - and then narrowed it down to the idea of lines within the body such as veins. This collection includes life drawing.

Sketchbook work - section of life drawing

PHYSICAL THINKING - BODY, LINE AND FORM

Sketchbook work - development of life drawing with use of colour

Sketchbook work - development of life drawing with colour

Sketchbook work - monoprint excess ink with glitter

Sketchbook work - monoprint with vein sketch in graphite pencil

Sketchbook work - two separate monoprint pieces for development of positioning and colour

Domestic knitting machine - hooking up technique

Dubied knitting machine - drop stitch technique

Domestic knitting machine - partial knitting technique

Domestic knitting machine - pointelle holes, laddering and partial knitting techniques

Dubied knitting machine - 7gg 1x1 rib

Dubied knitting machine - 10gg roll technique with stripes

Fabric manipulation sample - machine stitch, hand stitch and smocking Sample attached to mini mannequin to exhibit possible use in costume

Fabric manipulation sample - machine stitch, hand stitch and smocking Sample attached to mini mannequin to exhibit possible use in costume Close up of heavy machine stitch with hand embroidery and smocking to create a more durable fabric at the waist of the costume

Fabric manipulation sample - machine stitch from sketchbook work with smocking technique

Fabric manipulation sample - machine stitch from sketchbook work with smocking technique Close up image to exhibit the technique to expose its flexibility as well as strength

Fabric manipulation sample - machine stitch and layering of fabrics, silk tye-dyed layer puckered by the stitch, making the fabric seem free and flowing, giving it movement against the rigidity of the dense stitch above Sample attached to mini mannequin to exhibit possible use in costume

Fabric manipulation sample - layered fabrics with hand and machine stitch, plus beading and glitter Top layer of hessian with irregular lines made in machine stitch and then thick hand embroidery lines taken from development sketches Bottom layer of tye-dyed silk with dense machine embroidery, machine stitched lines taken from development sketches, plus beading and use of glitter

SECOND YEAR - SECOND SEMESTER

My pracical work in second semester of second year is a collection of hand embroidery and embellishment for lingerie design, with a focus on floral patterning. My first source of inspiration did not come from lingerie, but from Valentino couture. The motifs and styling of the garments of the Spring 2015 Valentino couture show were heavily influenced by ideas of love, through poetry and paintings of rural, folk villages in the memory of Russian artist Marc Chagall.

This lead me to be inspired by the imagery from Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1832 poem The Lady of Shalott. In addition to the imagery found in the poem, I looked to the famous depictions of The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse (1888) and William Holmon Hunt (1908).

Sketchbook work - fineliner ink continuous line drawing section of floral inspiration

Sketchbook work - fineliner ink continuous line drawing of floral/leaf inspiration

EMBROIDERED LINGERIE

Sketchbook work - tracing paper ink colour-work picking out sections of colour and/or texture density. Green leaves

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Sketchbook work - detail of tracing paper oil pastel colour-work picking out sections of colour and/or texture density. Green leaves

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Sketchbook work - detail of tracing paper ink colour-work picking out sections of colour and/or texture density. Green leaves

Sketchbook work - tracing paper oil pastel colour-work picking out sections of colour and/or texture density. Red tulip petals

Sketchbook work - tracing paper ink colour-work picking out sections of colour and/or texture density. Red tulip petals

Sketchbook work - detail of tracing paper ink colour-work picking out sections of colour and/or texture density. Red tulip petals

Sketchbook work - detail of tracing paper water colour painting, colour-work picking out sections of colour and/or texture density. Blue hydrangea flowers

Sketchbook work - assortment of tracing paper water colour painting, colour-work picking out sections of colour and/or texture density. Blue hydrangea flowers

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Sketchbook work - detail of tracing paper water colour painting, colour-work picking out sections of colour and/or texture density. Blue hydrangea flowers