FMP underway!

I haven't posted for a little while, been a busy bee doing FMP research.


I'm still researching my three British themes before making final prints using collage. 


I had a go at some stop start animation today as part of my Tearooms research, I just made a simple clip but am hoping to try something a bit more exciting in the next few weeks. Watch this space!

Start of final project!

The time has come to start my Final Major Project (FMP) at uni. Very scary business indeed. I've been really stuck for ideas but after lots of brainstorming I came to a decision to look at collage and decoupage, using very classic British imagery stemming from three key themes- tea rooms, gardens and the seaside. The images below are from the beginning of my research. 

General collage experiment before focusing in on my three key themes. 

Starting to look at the British Seaside.

I've been busy eating myself into a coma over Christmas so haven't blogged for a little while.. I've been frantically trying to finish my dissertation this week but took a break to visit the Fashion Museum in Bath. The picture below from their website (http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk) is from their Dress of the Year exhibition and shows the two dresses selected from 2008. My dissertation is about reoccurrance of trends, specifically long and short hemlines in the Sixties and Seventies. These two pictures show perfectly these two trends are as important today as they were back then.

The dress on the left is Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel. 

On the right is Kate Moss for Topshop.

Not strictly textiles but....

Just decorated the Christmas cake with Mum, isn't it a beaut....

Christmas Craft!

We're starting to raise some money at uni in order to show at New Designers in the summer. We have a stall selling Christmas items this week so I made some gift labels. 


They are just some brown paper luggage tags pimped up! With ribbon, beads and buttons. 


I am definitely feeling the festive spirit now! 

Charlotte Taylor Project - Hidden In The Ripples

My first third year project at uni was a collaboration with British Designer Charlotte Taylor http://charlotte-taylor.blogspot.com/. She set us a brief based around Japanese Culture. My research originally focussed on carp then moving on to look at origami. The carp gave my work a watercolour feel combined with quite graphic origami inspired lines. This also led me to use pleats. I based my prints around losing my original carp design within these graphic features. The collection is made of 12 digital prints on silk habotai and crepe de chine and is called 'Hidden in The Ripples'. 

Enterprise Project 2011

This was a uni project in my second year. We set up small businesses in groups. I was part of One Thousand and One Secrets, we made six unique women's dresses inspired by many different cultures. The collection featured hand dyed fabric, laser cutting, embroidery, beading, and screen printing. I was responsible for designing some of the prints, screen printing and embellishment. We had to brand the business, organise a photoshoot and sell the garments. The images below are from the photoshoot which took place in Portsmouth.

The dresses below feature a print I designed, based on henna.