Monday, 27 January 2014

Chapter 10 Designing an accessory

What is an accessory? A few ideas below

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After some searching for useful pictures of accessories with some spiralling aspects, opted for the bracelet and/or watch strap, for which the following illustrate:

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Returning to my earlier spiral designs based on musical instruments, in particular violin and harp I was reminded of drawn images:

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I worked on one or two of the images, manipulating them using the Draw package on our PC.

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I also revisited some mono-printed fabrics, manipulating them also.

I followed with the use of the complementary colours of purple and yellow

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How should I develop the images for the chosen accessory of bracelets?

Firstly I thought about an arrangement of wrist decorations, worn together either on their own or over a cuff

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A small group of fellow embroiderers meet monthly and at the last get together we chatted about my ideas:

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Then I started to design some of the different types from left to right on the picture (two above)

The cuffs:

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The bracelets, using different techniques:

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I developed the last one, taking photos of the dissolvable fabric in the hoop; dissolved fabric with different backgrounds, cut up pieces and roughly arranged as bracelets  (Actually all photos show the fabric dissolved, the first gives an impression of its position in the hoop)

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These two show on the left the working surface of the fabric, on the right results of cable stitch

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Here are some different fabric backgrounds

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Cut up shapes, roughly placed into the shape of bracelets

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The final design for bracelet is using silk rods

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As well as considering bracelets off or on a cuff, I have wondered whether to concentrate on the wider type of bracelet for a watch strap.

Here are some initial ideas:

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Now I need to decide whether to:

  • Do a series of bracelets as on page 18 without a cuff
  • Do a series of bracelets as on page 18 with a cuff
  • Develop one bracelet only (do like the dissolvable fabric designs)
  • Make a watch strap

All samples so far are very basic, most needing further embellishments.

I like a lot of the designs and feel I’ve managed to use the colours in a good way

But what should be my final assessment piece?

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