2021: Textile Design BA Hons
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Statement
My most recent project focuses on textile sustainability, as the outcome of my MSc, which stemmed from my creative background and blossomed into a deeper appreciation of textile’s foundations.
Textile Sustainability and Innovation MSc 2021/22
I have always been inspired by my natural surroundings; from colours, textures, and forms, as reflected in my undergraduate design work below. Mother Nature truly is exquisite, but as research throughout my undergraduate degree unveiled (as well as its growing social media presence) it is vanishing before our very eyes. It’s accumulating impact faced by industries globally – but particularly fashion and textiles – is traumatising, and this rapidly ignited interest to pursue textile sustainability further.
My research dissertation observed textile sustainability through a materiality perspective, delving into fiber-to-fiber recycling; specifically, mechanical shredding of post-consumer and post-industrial waste and its possibility for subsequent quality yarn production. Recycling provides a successful temporary solution to progress sustainability, though if radically improved could contribute greatly towards a more circular economy. Indeed, developing industry sustainability greatly. A summary of my project and overall findings throughout is displayed in the supporting poster below.
From waste to resource: An investigation into the impacts of mechanically recycling post-consumer and post-industrial waste on fiber and yarn output quality.
Textile Design (IND) – BA Hons 2017/21
Collection 1 – Sea Textures
Final design 1 – Drawing sea bubbles and foam seen from the sand’s surface after the receding of the tide.
Design colourway.
Fabric sampling – heat sublimation printing on satin and faux velvet.
Fabric sampling – Screen printing (left) and Jacquard weaving (right) of the same design.
Fabric sampling – heat sublimation print on satin. Design inspired by pools of water on the sand’s surface using Indian inks and watercolour.
Collection 2 – Sea Life
Fabric sampling – heat sublimation print on velvet and satin of various designs and colourways.
Collections 3 & 4 – Reflection and Abstraction
Visual Studies
A supporting module and project to encourage alternative ways of working in motif development to apply to digital print. For this, I explored textures and surfaces inspired by Seascapes in various ways; first creating abstract, fluid mark-making, and then turning these into experimental rock compositions. Primary photography was also used and worked back into with stitch to explore diverse techniques and aesthetics.
