Final Collection
This project has been a huge learning
curve for me, being my first fully dedicated unit to weave. Learning
to use the Scotweave and the loom itself has been as much a part of
my project as designing the composition and patterns themselves. Now
that this unit is over and I have had time to reflect, I now feel
more confident with choosing weave as my speciality. Also with the
research I have undertaken into weaving designers I have a clearing
goal for the future of my career and practise.
Throughout this project my aim has been
to develop a collection that, naturally, relates to my initial visual
research yet shows considered development. I wanted each piece to
embody detail, texture and space in there own way while relating
harmoniously as a collection. I feel I have meet these specifications
with my final collection.
Composition Design Plans
I have thoroughly enjoyed this
projected with both my brief, future past, and weaving. Constantly
experimenting from the very beginning with the visual research, I
attempted to use different media for every study in order to create
different textures that I could then develop into weave. I continued
this exploration of media while designing compositions as I was
unsure how to tackle composition design, it took a number of
different strategies before I found a method that worked for me, but
by exploring them all I felt more and more confident with my personal
design process. I feel there is still more experimenting that can be
done to improve this area, I would like to find a method that is
fluid to me and allows me to design with little thinking or effort,
as I believe this is the best and natural may to work.
Margo Selby
Research has also been vital in this
unit; as this has been my first sole weave project finding designers
that work in a way I would like to has been key in creating my
collection. Building up my knowledge of weavers will be a continuous
ongoing project, the more I find out the better I can place myself
within the weaving world and direct my designs. Initially, for this
project, I was working towards a soft furnishings outcome, by using
wools and creating compositions that would suit products such as
blankets, as borders or all over designs. However after my collection
was finished I found there were some pieces that would be well suited
to fashion, due to there dense and soft qualities, Ideal for coats
and scarf’s.
As there was a range of suitability
within my designs I found a connection forming to, my favourite weave
designer, Margo Selby. This connection is not due to the designs of
the fabric itself but to the wide range of potential end products,
Selby as I have said in a previous post has designed fabrics for
nearly everything from shoes to scarf’s and quilt covers to
carpets. I am very happy with this connection, as I am only just
staring to weave seriously and the only direction I had for my work
at the beginning of this project was for it to be commercial, a
connection to both soft furnishings and fashion is a success.
Potential Products
I would in the next and future projects
like to develop my understanding of weave; both in technical
construction and knowledge of requirements for commercial fabrics.
After a visiting a number of mills with MMU peers I was fascinated
with the factors designers had to consider while creating fabrics,
elements such as colour, yarn and pattern have to be suitable for a
specific purpose.
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