Moving through the skills with the 1st yrs.
This week machine knit,crochet, macrame and with hand knit soon to follow.
Lots more techniques as the weeks unfold.
Interpreting their 3D referencing and utilising traditional techniques it will be very exciting to see the contemporary update.
Lets get inventive and creative.
The making skills started yesterday.Manipulation through macrame.
Macramé or macrame is a form of textile-making using knotting rather than weaving or knitting. Its primary knots are the square knot and forms of “hitching”: full hitch and double half hitches.
Before we start to even attempt a textile structure in the form of knit,weave,braid or macrame etc… we look for, and interpret,three dimensional influences.
The lead into this project was research into manmade constructions.
Once recorded the ideas took shape and over one or two days,unique forms emerged as individual students produced their own 3D referencing.
Surfaces,textures,structure,materials and form went head to head in the race for unique starting points.
This week the technical workshops begin with this information as the beginning of the beginning!
That's What I Want To Do 