Vanessa Beecroft

Shape Making

My finished toile:

 I came across these images whilst looking for inspiration for a project with the title, 'shape making'. The brief was to create interesting shapes for a fashion garment that moves away from the traditional western silhouette. These do that perfectly. I love the combination of 3D design and knitted fabrics. Seeing these really inspired me for my next project.

my finished top!

Fabric Postcards

Here is a selection of the knitted, painted, printed, embroidered, printed postcards i made. I'm pretty pleased with them, i'm thinking about making them into purses to sell.

knitted samples

Printed fabric postcard samples

Research:

Zeel

www.prickyourfinger.com

 

Zarah Savage

www.prickyourfinger.com

oh my gyaaaaaaaaaaad!!!!!

Hollis Brown Thornton

http://thatsdeadgood.blogspot.com

Work in progress:

Here is the 3 final printed panels, for my top. I've joined them and the prints match up phew! The top is nearly finished, photo's will be up ASAP! 

Knitted Nostalgia

Old research:

I have used the research from a previous project 'Nostalgia', and i've explored the ways that i can recreate my work in knit. Here are some of the samples i have developed.

Letter print onto knit:

Envelope print:

Printed writing and embroidered sample:

Gold splats on knit:

Printed writing on to knit:

My knitted origami butterfly:

Ladder knit:

The crop top i'm making will be made mostly from this knitted fabric. Panels on the front of the top will be plain knit with a print over the top and then embroidered on top.

Niklas Lundberg:

Someone put a swing up in the center or Paris, how adorable. 

Carte Postala

 

Vanessa Cuthbert

Pages from, Vanessa Cuthbert’s ‘When my opera bird sings’

This is the sort of book i could look at for hours. Every time you look at a page you spot something new. I drive myself crazy thinking and analysing people, art, the written word, almost everything, and so i found myself completely emersed in it. I was trying to work out the story of the book, (i didn’t get there, it just got my head whirring at 100 miles an hour and a funny feeling in my tummy). I’d love to create a book that could create someone so much intrigue and excitement as this one did for me. I'm going to work on my own book asap!

I'd like my book to be mostly printed textiles but i'd love to add in other materials and applique some of the pages as well. I've also thought about having some knitted pages, which if done properly could look beautiful.