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In the left hand sample a winged needle was used on the top row with a hem stitch and thick blue thread. Lines of dyed gummed silk were then worked over with the same needle and thread. The holes between the lines of silk were made by the winged needle but without any thread in the machine.
In the right hand sample a grid shape was sewn using a triple straight stitch on muslin. The muslin was then cut away around the grid lines.
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The left hand sample uses dyed scrim stitched in a grid pattern with a winged needle. In the blue sample the dyed scrim has been treated with wax and additional threads pulled prior to stitching.
The white sample uses layers of undyed scrim , stitched in a grid pattern and then slashed.
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An oblong of red wool boucle was used with small rectangles of a variety of dyed colours of tissue fragments sewn behind. The red fabric was then cut back and either folded , frayed or rolled to reveal the backing colours.
IMAGE 5 SIZE A4In this sample lengths of merino wool have been teased apart into a grid pattern and the intersections secured with rayon thread.
IMAGE 6 SIZE A3At the left hand sided dyed and waxed scim has been used and a pattern has been stitched and cut out.
In the centre top an orange/ red silk has been used a the top in a slashed pattern to reveal the red reverse side. In the bottom orange/red sample the same fabric has been used but every other warp thread has been removed. The reamaining threads were then teased out in a 'slashed' pattern across the weft threads. The top right is the frayed /slashed muslin sample.
The bottom right is a fabric made from a fringed yarn sewn to a nylon net background. The fabric was then slashed from the back between the lines of stitching.
IMAGE 7 SIZE A3.This sample used a sample of silver/black/grey and white silk lurex as a background.In the centre of the sample is a rectangle of white copy paper with a graphite rubbing made over lolly sticks. Holes were then punched around the edge of the paper and threads frayed from the warp of the background fabric were then threaded through in an arching pattern.
Buckle shapes were cut from black card and these were then either threaded or backed with other black/grey and white fabric pieces. Small diamonds of black and silver silk lurex were then added to the corners.
IMAGE 8 SIZE A3 The top sample has been made from black card. A small square of blue foiled card was then cut and placed in the centre of the backing card. Eyelet holes have been punched in the centre and eyelets inserted. Strands of purple mohair wool were then threaded through the eyelet holes and then were spread out in a 'sunray' pattern. A small triangle was cut out of the background cardboard at each corner and small pieces of silk were then stitched into place behind. Narrow blue silk and velvet ribbon was then wound into notches cut in the corners of the blue foiled card and threaded through holes punched in the black card.
The bottom sample has been worked on painted handmade paper. This was then overlaid with three jewellery making spokes of wire, secured through holes by open silver metal beads and thick silver metallic thread. A series of holes was then punched around the curves of each of the painted shapes. These were then wound in patterns with the silver metallic thread and sequins and beads were used for further embellishment.
IMAGE 9 SIZE A3In the left hand sample a number of circles of different colours of nylon organza were bonded together at the edges on to a backing of dyed and waxed scrim. Triangles were then cut to differing depths around the circle and folded back to reveal the different colours in the 'sandwich'
The tips of the triangles were then melted to fuse them to the edge of the circle. In the centre, some triangles of organza remain while others have been completely folded back to reveal the scrim layer. Fine 'ribbons' were then cut from the organza trimmings and melted/ fused onto the background in the centre of the circle. The sample was then edged in concentric cirles with an automated machine stitched pattern.
In the right hand sample a square of dry needle felted fabric was formed from synthethic mohair and metallic threads. The sample was then teased apart at the edges to leave a lacy border of irregular shapes holes around the firmer felt centre.
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In the left hand sample dyed scrim has been worked with a number of patterns of holes to form butterfly shapes.
The right hand sample continues the butterfly theme with a variety of methods used to cut butterfly shapes out from the varying layers of the backgroud and to reapply them giving positive and negative formations and a 3D effect.
IMAGE 11 SIZE A3 The top black and white sample has been formed from melted loops of white organza bonded on to a narrow stitched ribbon linking thread.
The bottom left sample has been made from bonded organza and foil fabric shapes being bonded onto a square of turquoise acrylic.
The right hand sample has been formed from two squares of stencil film being bonded together over some dyed threads of gummed silk and silk boucle. The edges of the suare were then cut into by a hot wire and threads woven into the resulting notches. Holes were then melted with a wide tipped soldering iron through all the layers where the threads formed curving patterns.
IMAGE 12 SIZE A3Layers of fabric were stitched in diagonal lines behind a piece of furnishing brocade and backed with hessian. The resulting fabric was then slashed back to the hessian layer. In some places the motifs in the top fabric were slashed through and, in others , they were left intact. The edges of the layers were then brushed and teased out by a wire brush.
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This sample was designed to give some of the transparent/ translucent feel of water. The silk fibres were therefore dyed in a variety of weak dye solutions and then placed in a very fine layer, giving a papery feel to the resulting sample.
The silk threads were overlaid by wavy lines of a fine fringed metallic yarn in increasing depths
of indentation.
IMAGE 14 SIZE 12 INS X12 INSThis sample retains the 'water' theme but was designed to be much more robust in feel and construction. The silk fibres were therefore dyed to much deeper colours and dyed silk rods, velvet and silk ribbons were added to the mix.
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IMAGE 15 SIZE 8 INS X 8 INS.In this sample two undyed silk hankerchiefs were used to form a sandwich for a series of blue and cream machine embroidered butterflies resulting in a very delicate , fragile silk fabric.
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Time taken 17 hours.
IMAGE 16 SIZE A4 This sample again used silk handkerchiefs as the underlying fabric but thick layers of throwsters waste in gold and black were then placed over the top. The first layers were glued down with CMC but then the net top sheet was removed before the sample was completely dry and further layers were added which were not re-glued. This gives a loose feel to the resulting fabric and leaves silk threads hanging from the surface.
The sample was then stitched over with skeleton leaves, black organza petal shapes and black beads. A machine embroidered black and gold butterfly was then added as decoration.
Time taken 17 hours.
