Revisions,Design,Devore

IMAGE 1 Reworking of the Red fabric sample from IMAGE 4 of last posting plus two samples of fabric made from the white organza 'ribbons' from the previous image 11. One with small holes and one with large. The windows in the blue fabric include one held back by needle felting with shards of white organza being embedded as embellishment. In the bottom left sample the heavy threads from the fabric have been pulled out and re-sewn down in a series of bars across the opening. In the bottom right the heavy threads have been left but some of the finer threads were pulled out and the castellated edge of heavy threads left as a border on one side. In the top left the window has been cut into a V shape and the finer threads shreded from the resulting shape.

IMAGE 2

A different idea for silk paper in addition to the machine embroidered butterflies from Image 15 of the previous posting. Here a dragonfly shape has been made in silk paper and placed alongside a hand made silk screen dragonfly print. IMAGE 3

Reworking of image 8 top and bottom image 11

IMAGE 4

Re-presentation/ reworking of previous images numbers 7and 9

IMAGE 5 (SIZE 12 INCHES X 32 INCHES)

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Re- placement of textured dark bands in the centre moving to lighter green/ blue textures, then to the lavender/blue textures and finally to smooth green and blue. IMAGE 6

SAMPLES OF TEXTURED PANELS IN THE TWO COLOURWAYS.

CHAPTER 5 DEVORE/ FIBRE ETCH.

IMAGE 7 SIZE A3

DEVORE SAMPLES.

Top sample using glue as a mask, working from the back of the fabric through a silk screen on to cream crushed velvet. Sample dyed after working. Centre left ,velvet using a stencil of a fish as a mask and 'sculpting' the velvet from the right side.

Bottom left using two different sizes of hand crocheted squares as a mask on the silk screen, again working from the right side on to white velvet, subsequently dyed green.

Centre right 'sunburst'. Working from the wrong side of the velvet through a silk screen using masking tape and gathers as masks, which were subsequently removed.

Bottom right using vinyl wallpaper as a mask.

Image 8 size 2 X 8 inch squares.

Using composition fabric of 82%viscose,16% polyamid and 2% elastan. In the left hand one the paste was painted on in stripes and the fabric was pulled into shreds along the lines. In the red saple the paste was applied through the dragonfly stencil and the fabric shreded along the lines within the image.