Cath Bond - Art Online

Raised & structured surface textiles

Saturday, 15 April, 2006 - 16:54

I've now finished stage 4, entitled Raised & Structured surface textiles.

What have I achieved?

I prefer working with fabric rather than working directly with stitch. It's not easy to understand why this is, but I think it must be something to do with the ability to work quickly, and therefore to work more spontaneously. Also, I can more easily let fabrics dictate to me what they want to happen, and connect this with my sketch book work. This doesn't happen so easily with stitch.

I love working with textiles to create 3D effects. I am particularly please with this:

I like the way that gathering parts of the hessian has a ripple effect on other parts of the fabric. I'm really pleased with the movement I've managed to create, and how the fabric mimics the movement of waves. This particular piece relates very clearly to a sketch I did.

I also love the leaf-structure sample:

The reason I like this sample is because I incorporated bleach and teabag colouring to create an organic effect. This shows how I'm connecting things I've learned from previous exercises with new exercises.

I've also enjoyed trying out fabric folding:



This technique works really well for creating 3D effects, and I can see myself using this again in the future. With both of these samples, the fabric manipulation took over and dicated the final result. I found myself connecting directly with the fabric and letting it do what felt most natural in relation to the folds.

The angelina fibre was great to work with:

I can see a definite style coming through in my work, in relation to organic/natural mark making, circles, the sea. I love working with fabrics such as scrim, hessian, delicate threads, natural sheep wool. I'd like to see if I can somehow bring all of these influences together in a "piece of my own".

Author: cath
Categories: textiles, 3D,
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