Week 11 - Continue creating wearable structure

My wearable structure continued in week 11 when i started to hand stitch the deconstructed army jacket onto the 3D shaped tights that were taken off from the chair once they had dryed.

The Final product is to be showcased at the Fashion show at 3pm at UEL Fashion studio in AVA

Week 10 - Wearable Structure

My wearble structure consists of tights by recreating the glue and cloth task done in previous lessons, and using the deconstructed army jacket. I 1st created my 3D shape using the nylon tights, PVA glue, and also some red paint to finish...

Week 9 (Afternoon) Pleating workshop - Creating own pleated fabric

I created my own pleat by 1st drawing 3cm apart lines on a piece of 1metre brown paper. After i had drawn the lines, i then began to fold over each one very carefully. Continuing the same process on the 2nd half of the 1 metre paper, i then took my fabric and placed it inbetween each fold until it was fully in between both pieces of paper.

After this i then used a steam iron the flatten the whole thing, and left it to cool off before unwrapping the whole thing.

My Pleated Fabric

Week 9 - Pleating Workshop

In week 9, we had a visitor showing us different types of fabric that had been pleated, from simple zig zag pleats to more complicated ones. I first took pictures of all the different types of pleated fabrics that were shown and then moved on to creating my own pleated fabric. Here are some pictures i had taken at the beginning of the lesson...