born this way

"The nexus of 'Born This Way' and the soul of the record reside in this idea that you were not necessarily born in one moment. You have your entire life to birth yourself into becoming the ultimate potential vision that you see for you. Who you are when you come out of your mother's womb is not necessarily who you will become. 'Born This Way' says your birth is not finite, your birth is infinite."

—Gaga talking about the meaning of "Born This Way"

PVC

 

This is a selection of work from my first year at university working with PVC, image transferring, stitch and embroidery. My inspiration came from my visit to Amsterdam, March 2012, from the bicycles, and the architecture. (This is also where I found an inner desire for bicyles!)

 

This is some of the more abstract work I did, focusing on the circular shapes of the bicycle wheels, using simple stitch techniques to pick up the shapes. I was creating these designs with Anthropologie, London, in mind, as we had to choose a high end designer brand to direct our work to. As Anthropologie's colour ways are quite aboriginal, cultured and bright I carefully chose colours from my images from Amsterdam to fit in with this, so that my collections were coherant with the rest of the products at Anthropologie.

 

 

 

This is a little sneaky preview of the image transfers. These were just my photos placed under the heat press on top of some PVC (or certain types of leather can be used). This was a really quick and simple technique but worked so effectively. If the PVC was un-ironed before hand some of the image would be 'crackily' which I is what I loved about it, and gave it a very vintage feel. (Also, to make it appear more old and distressed, I used an iron, because then the heat was not even, and some parts turned out brighter than others). For a smoother finish, I would iron the PVC before hand to make all the little creases smooth out.

 

 

Anthropologie's products range from clothes, jewellery, bedding, kitchen ware, home wares .. literally everything. From the nature of the fabric I was using I designed for dining ware. Mainly cotton table cloths, cotton napkins and PVC placemats and coasters.

website launch!

just wanted to take a moment to tell you all that my website is finally launched! www.dottytextiles.co.uk

fabric, fabric, fabric

I am currently designing up some magical fabric manipulated samples ready to become cushions! My mini studio is slowly becoming overloaded with haberdashery.. fabric and threads are everywhere but its all worth the clean up because I'm having a ball :P Whats the point on doing something if you don't like it aye??

 

I've decided to give you all a very, very cheeky preview of what I am up to currently .. because I am nice like that.. hehe

 

 

 

My inspirations have come from my visit to Barcelona in early March of this year, I went to the Gaudi cathedral and I am using the interior as my subject matter for this project.

 

....and the flooring from the Gaudi house gardens...

 

using lots of stich, fabric manipulated techniques to create some quirky cushions, I hope :P