Chapters 7,8,9,10

CHAPTER 7 QUILL WORK IMAGE 1 SIZE A5 DRINKING STRAW QUILLS Drinking straws painted with acrylic paint. Straws bent over and bound with rayon threads. Stitched together and through on to a tie dyed cotton background. IMAGE 2 SIZE A5 QUILLS Rolled and stitched pink net. rolls of milliners net and piping cord wrapped with green organza ribbon. IMAGE 3 SIZE A5 QUILLS From left to right. Green wool French knitting starched and cut into short lengths. Centre and right hand section quills made from florists cellophane,yellow tissue paper and metallic fabric bonded and stiffened cut into short lengths.

CHAPTER 8 USE OF PLASTIC MATERIALS

IMAGE 4 SIZE 15 INS SQUARE

Black polythene bonded with strips of plastic bags and handles together with plastic garden string.

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SIZE 20 INS LONG, 10 INS WIDE

Sample in image 4 cut up and re-assembled.

IMAGE 6 SIZE A4 Plastic strips and triangles bonded to black plastic sack.

IMAGE 7 SIZE A5

Orange plastic with writing stitched to plastic metallic fabric edged with knitted casssette tape and over-laid with plastic netting.

IMAGE 8 SIZE 20INS BY 15 INS

Plastic shoe bag with bonded netting and florist's cellophane 'flowers'

IMAGE 9 SIZE 15 INS SQUARE

Black polythene bag painted with acrylic paints, 'combed', then stencilled dragonflies applied.

IMAGE 10 SIZE 24INS BY 14 INS

RESOLVED SAMPLE FUSED AND STITCHED PLASTIC

This sample uses shapes drawn from my ethnic study of Maori Art. The shapes were cut from plastic bags, florist cellophane and heavy tissue and were then bonded and stitched onto a background of white polythene. Plastic drinking straws were cut into sections and stitched across the diamond shapes in an echo of the stitching on Maori wall panels.

CHAPTER 9 BONDED LAYERS

IMAGE 11 MATERIALS ASSEMBLED FOR BONDED SAMPLES

The materials include (from right to left) Painted tissue layers coated with acrylic wax,painted Lutrador, painted cotton organdie, painted Tyvek, Painted and stitched brown paper, painted scrim, painted horticultural fleece, Polyurethene ribbon made into a trellis.

IMAGE 12 SIZE A5

Organza and scim stitched on to tyvek. The tyvek on the back was then heated causing the distortion and bubbling of the attached fabrics.

IMAGE 13 SIZE A5

Painted nylon netting covered with layers of metallic fragments, polyurethe ribbon lace trellis and organza. The layers stitched through with oversized french knots and then steamed into a wave shape.

IMAGE 14 SIZE A 5

Painted and stitched brown paper bonded with scrim fragments on transfer adhesive overlaid with sections of lace made from lengths of metallic thread.

IMAGE 15 SIZE A5

Bonded sample made from painted pelmet vilene overlaid with bonda web, transfoil and tissue. The whole sample was then covered with dilute PVA and dried flat. IMAGE 16 SIZE A5

Bonded sample made as above with the addition of a stencilled embossed emblem.

IMAGE 17 SIZE A5

Sample made as above with the top layers cut back to the original pelmet vilene with a heated tip.

IMAGE 18 SIZE A5

Sample made from setions of samples above with the application of a bonded Tyvek fish

IMAGE 19 SIZE A5

Solid shapes made from sandwiches of bonded organza and metallic fabrics. The shapes were then hand stitched in place on to a ground fabric made from tissue, painted and waxed , overlaid with Lutrador.

IMAGE 20 SIZE 12 INS SQUARE

Bonded translucent layers with dragonflies trapped inside or applied to the top surface. Base fabric is from cotton cloth laid underneath a screen print used previously.

IMAGE 21 SIZE A5

Lutrador and slashed Tyvek ' stitched 'through with strips of horticultural fleece and heated to distort back to the painted cotton organdie background.

IMAGE 22 16 INS SQUARE.

Bonded layers on cotton organdie with fragments of scrim, nylon mesh, painted and waxed brown paper with a ribbon trellis corner. Sample over laid wih lutrador and burned back through the layers.

CHAPTER 10

IMAGE 23 SIZE 15 INS SQUARE.

BONDED AND STITCHED RESOLVED SAMPLE

Returning to my main theme the base for this sample is painted cotton organdie covered with painted bondaweb. The seahorses are worked in transfoil through a stencil with the spines stitched on. Lengths of seaweed were made from strips of horticultural fleece. Shells were made from bonded sandwiches of metallic fabric, bonded on and stitched round with Kantha stitching. Tyvek fishes with bead eyes are trapped beneath scrim nets, stitched through to the background. The whole was then over stiched with long lengths of purple metallic threads, caught down by cross stitches to the background.

RESOLVED SAMPLE BUILDING A TOTEM

For this sample I returned to the work done in Chapter 5 of this module, using the photograph taken in the Norwegian Fijords. The totem sections are linked together with sections cut from the photograph which echo the colours and shapes within each stitched piece of the whole.

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MATERIALS FOR THE TOTEM

Includes painted scrim, painted Bondaweb, silk paper,organdie

IMAGE 25 SIZE 2 METRES LONG

IMAGES 26 TO 30 INDIVIDUAL TOTEM SHAPES. EACH ONE A4 IN SIZE

TOP TO BOTTOM OF TOTEM Image 26 Painted organdie overlaid with srips of painted horticultural fleece, stitched, gathered and sewn on before being blasted with a heat gun. The sample was then overlaid with painted stiffend scrim from which some thread had been withdrawn. After drying further squares were cut from the scrim to allow more visibility of the underlying layers.

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Painted pelmet vilene was overlaid by painted strips of horticultural fleece. The strips were stitched length wise down the length of the samples , gathered and heat blasted.

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The shapes in this sample echo the shapes and colours within the rock face. The cut shapes were stitched through the centre , a wooden stake placed through and the edges fanned out to make a 3D sample.

Image 29

This sample was worked on painted cotton organdie and heavily machine embroidered.

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This sample was made on a base of painted organdie. The top section of rock faces was made from cut up sections of hand made silk paper with machine embroidery highlights. The curving black band was made from fragments of stiffened scrim cut from the top totem sample. The orange and lemon and grey bottom layer of the rock faces was made from painted bonda web , edged with hand worked french knots. The water was made from bonded layers of organza over tyvek, heat treated to achieve the ripples. The finished sample was highlighted by hand and machine embroidery

Timings

Chapter 7 9 hours

Chapter 8 15 hours

Chapter 9 15 hours

Chapter 10 22 hours

Photography and typing 8 hours.