Textile - 3

 After last week's failed attempt, this week I used ordinary textile materials in place of traditional food.

The final selection of appropriate small samples combined with the bags selected in the first week made two options for the finished product.





Plastic sequins sewing (instead of fish scales)


Knitting


Plastic bag collection






The finished product to show

Plan 1





Plan  2





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T his week I've been experimenting with different prototypes and trials to test the feasibility of my design plans. Before doing this I did some drawing on the computer and made two design schematics. This one was inspired by the poem ' The Butterfly Hiding from the Rain ' by Lin Ping. The poem describes a butterfly that gets lost and enters the poet's window when a rainstorm is coming. I combined the butterfly with traditional Chinese costume patterns to create my first design, 'Butterfly Labyrinth', and put Lin Ping's poetry on the back of the bag. For the materials test I made a specimen of the butterfly  and after the specimen had dried  I found that the butterfly's wings were too fragile  to be used as a material for my work. The inspiration for this image came from the food I buy every day  and I used a combination of fish scales  and kale to make this design. I collected fish scales from the market and preserved them by deep-frying  and baking the...
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