fourth assessment piece development

IMAGE 1 Original design for Broadland jacket IMAGE 2 Paper and paint mock up of central back triangular panel and lace sleeves

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Paper and paint mock up of reed border,fabric for birds, fabric for lace sleeve panels and fabric for dragonfly wings.

Fabric for birds is made in silk paper.Fabric for dragon fly wings ispainted bondaweb on organdie. These will be hand-stitched with feather stitch. The fabric for the lace windmill sail panels is a scrim and muslin stiffened sandwich. The lace sail shape panels will be stitched with a wing needle to give an open work effect.

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Fabric and threads for front panels prior to stitching. Begining of placement for reed border.

Fabric for front panels is dyed long mulberry silk threads bonded onto a silk lining. The surface will then be stitched using a variety of toning threads.

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Fabric for front panels and fabric for birds prior to cutting and stitching.

Bird shapes will be cut from the silk paper fabric , bonded on to stiff pelmet vilene and then mounted above the surface of the silk fibre fabric.