Friday, 21 February 2014

Week Nineteen

This week has been mainly aimed at mounting samples/drawings in order to get them looking presentable for the project deadline. I am pleased with the results believing it makes my fabrics for fashion samples appear more professional. This has also given myself opportunity to reflect on the work produced during the project and think about how could of improved as well as looking at things I could continue to work on.
I now feel that from looking over this project I could have produced more samples, even though I am happy with the ones I have create I understand that the hand process of embroidery is that of a slow one and hope that is taken into consideration when marking. I have been able to speed up the process with time but it still not a quick process to get correct. I am pleased with my hand process approach with the creation of sequins to hand pattern making, this feel like a more personal approach and feel that on this occasion it was appropriate to do so.

PE Presentation Evaluation
From the previous presentation given to students and staff earlier in the project, I will reflect and give a brief evaluation on my personal feelings towards the task. From a personal point of view my feeling towards the presentation were good, It went better than I expected. Visually I considered my presentation to be simple but effective and feel the images used were that of relevance. Verbally I could have been clearer and less mumbled but unfortunately nerves did not help with this problem, maybe this could have made my presentation clearer I way of explaining. Although I feel, I did put over my plans which appeared clear to me at the time knew that my importance was to test, experiment, and felt I could explain how I would be able to do so.  The ideas of my project are that of simples ones but hopefully ones that will appear effective and unusual in the contemporary.

Overall I feel that I have an underlying interest to processes and methods of the traditional combined with the use of contemporary materials and feel this will continue through to my next Unit X project with further investigation of these processes. As my interest is that of surfaces and patterns this will most defiantly continue through to my next project however I am unsure if it will be followed on from that of the previous or will further to a completely new theme. I feel this will become clearer when everything is put together at the end of this unit. 

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LEARNING AGREEMENT

BA(Hons)Textiles in Practice

Student name: Kate Victoria Ward

Unit title & no: Practice Unit

Project title : Fragments of beauty

Project statement (aims and outline)
The concept of my project is fragments of beauty, which has stemmed from a summer research project where I found myself inspired by fragments of broken tiles on a trip to Barcelona at Park Guell. I found these fragments inspiring so much so they later led me to look at other types of fragments, which then appeared as butterfly wings which I also, consider fragments of beauty. I plan to use the information and photographs to create drawings which I hope will led to new imagery in which can be used for pattern and mark making.

Identify areas of research: My aim within this unit is to create a series of fashion fabric samples from a researched subject that I will aim to translate with a mix of contemporary and traditional methods. The project will be a chance for me to experiment with different types of fabrics used within fashion and some that are not so well associated. I will use hand embroidery to experiment that will hopefully allow me to create unusual and exciting samples by way of using contemporary media against traditional methods of embroidery.

Identify context for work: I feel the series of fabric samples produced for this project will be aimed towards a fashion audience although I would like to show this in contrast showing how the samples could be simply translated into an interiors context if so wished.

Future intentions: For future work, I am hoping this current project will give me the basis needed to create a solid Unit X project, where I aim to further ideas with the previous successful sampling experiments.






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