Small Hems

Interesting tip I found through pinterest. 

http://www.burdastyle.com/techniques/how-to-sew-a-perfect-baby-hem/technique_steps/8

Artist Research-Locating

Jan Kath

Helen Yardley

Market Research-Locating

Rag rugs on the high street are still selling in places that specialise in vintage and shabby chic interiors like these ones in Urban Outfitters.

notonethehighstreet.com

 Here I have been looking at how I could mix colours with the both types of rag rugging.

Sampling Rag Rugs-Locating

I have been sampling some ideas for rag rugs and have used a simple method to show how they could look. My idea was to make them look worn by using colour mixing,dying and bleaching.

Techniques-Locating

Techniques of rag rugging

Techniques-Locating

Sampling-Locating

I found this quick and simple method of making rag rugs on pinterest. I plan to use this method to create my experimental samples, although this is not the original way of making a rag rug I will be able to create more samples as it is much quicker, I think this works well as I am just wanting to create a vision not a real rug.

Sampling-Locating

I have created these samples to show how my Italian quilting could be shaped and made more 3 dimensional.

Research-Locating

I have been looking at fashion and how textures are used in garments.

Vogue Image

Alexander McQueen

These images have made me think about 3 dimensional shapes and how I could create shape using my samples.  

Locating

I had an induction on the tufting machines today,tufting machines can be used to create rugs and raised surfaces. I thought this would be an interesting machine to create some samples, by using different weights of yarn as well as a way to experiment with colour mixing.
Samples to come.

Sampling-Locating

Italian quilting

Sampling-Locating

Samping-Locating

Looking at the back of samples.