Design development - working with traditional repeat techniques
Some repeats I drew out based on drawings round east London
Dilbag Cloth House
On monday I went to visit Dilbag Cloth House. They are the biggest importers of Asian fabrics in the UK and have a HUUUGE warehouse and showroom that’s full of rolls and rolls of beautiful printed and embellished fabrics which they buy direct from factories in India, Korea, Indonesia, Japan and China and then sell on to clients all over the world.
We were shown round by one of the bosses an I was really pleased to find out that a lot of the fabrics being produced in the far east are still being screen printed rather than printed using digital methods. I do find it hard to comprehend printing such large quantities of fabric by hand and I guess that’s where the likes of Fair Trade might come into play but from the perspective of someone who is training in traditional fabric printing methods I was encouraged.
This visit opened my eyes to a whole new area of textiles that we are not taught about on my course at university. I realised that in British art schools we are very much trained towards working in British and European high end settings when in reality the African, South American and Asian textile industries are far bigger than most in the west. It’s interesting that most budding UK designers don’t seem to know anything about this when they’re probably our best shot at getting experience and work in the textile industry.
Anyway, overall I had an amazing time at Dilbag and would really like to get an internship in the Asian textile industry now!
MINI INSPIRATION ~~9 things that are inspiring me this week…
1. Graffiti pics from The Ugly Kids Club www.theuglykidsclub.com
2. Cassette Playa’s amazing graphicsy prints http://cassetteplaya.com/
3. Kat Duck’s neon photoshoot http://www.katandduck.com/
4. Beautiful coloured glass (not sure where from!)
5. Geometric wedges from http://www.tobi.com/women/shoes
6. Painty illustration by Lauren Humphery http://lauren-mh.tumblr.com
7. Glittery collages by Leah Tacha http://leah-tacha.com/home.html
8. Versace prints http://www.versace.com/
9. Neon paints by Yago Hortal http://yagohortal.com/
Colour ways! I’ve been learning to screen print on paper and did these 3 colour prints yesterday. The design was a little last minute because of deadlines but LOOK AT THAT NEON ORANGE.
Can’t believe I’ve only just discovered Mugison!! He’s actually making all this end of term essaying bearable!
a comedy sleeve painted on my arm in indian ink and pro marker by the lovely Holly (http://meeko-moko.tumblr.com/) and Hannah (http://hannahjeannette.tumblr.com/)…got a few compliments in the pub but it was a bitch to get off!
New tingzz from my sketchbook… based around stuff I saw in Brick Lane. A mix of enamels, gouache, felt tip, pencil and wax crayon
Last week at uni we were learning to make photograms. We have to make a series of photograms with found objects and by the end of the term we will use the images to create pattern designs. I found some plastic soldiers in a box and some pens from my handbag and decided to make some little scenes with them because I feel like photograms can sometimes be a bit lifeless… here’re the results :)
Recently me and my friend Hannah (this is her blog: http://hannahjeannette.tumblr.com/ follow her she’s amazing) have been doing a new thing called ‘drawing club’. Basically we go round to each others flats and eat lots of food and sometimes have some wine and do big drawings or draw in our sketchbooks or make little drawings which we eventually want to make into a zine and a blog to match. These are some pictures of what we did last night (it’s not finished) :)
misssugarbones asked: hiya! did you study at newcastle before moving to london? just one of our teachers showed us some of your work last week. How strange to come across it on tumblr haha :D
yes I did my foundation there with adelin and sarah! how strange, I hope you’re enjoying the course :)
I’ve just been given my new brief for university and it’s based on London’s east end. I have to design wallpaper and architectural surfaces so I’ve been out researching… here’s some of what I found!
