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I have come to the end of the FDA at Bradford College and am about to embark on the course to top it up to a BA in Textiles Practice. Reflecting on what I have learned and can take forward I looked through all my sketchbooks from the last 4 years. He
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A visit yesterday to @talbotricegallery in Edinburgh to the exhibition of the amazing work of El Anatsui. Monumental 'cloths' constructed from metal or wood. I asked whether he supervised the installation, thinking about the folds int he fabric. I w
Thanks to @larkandbower for a great afternoon workshop, lots of ideas for yarn wrapping.
Recovered from Festival of Quilts, which was brilliant but exhausting. So beginning to feel creative again and get back to the Summer Project Take one material .... To layer #batextilespractice #summerproject @bradfordtextiles #takeonematerial #richa
Early morning photo of my booth before the crowds at Festival of Quilts. I have had great conversations today with so many people, it has been a privilege to exhibit here. A special shout out to @sculptureofstitch, thank you for such encouragement,
WasteAge Bag

WasteAge Bag

Mary Whitehouse
Sustainability, Textile Project

The WasteAge Coat is now sitting on a clothes rail awaiting its moment in the spotlight at the College Fashion Show on 10th June. As I had some fabric that I hadn’t used I thought it would be good to make a bag to go with the coat.

At one point in planning the WasteAge Coat I considered emphasising the sustainability message with words and the recycling logo. In the end it was too busy a design, and didn’t fit well with the 'heritage’ theme.

I have found PowerPoint a useful tool when playing with ideas - this image of the coat was created in PowerPoint, combining simple drawing with a text box for the lettering, a photo of an embroidered recycling logo and a screen shot of a design from EQ8 quilt design software.

For the Coat to go on the catwalk, I decided that a bag with impact would just finish it off. The bag would be constructed from fabrics made by A W Hainsworth: red blanket, with cream lettering, and blue straps made from a technical material used in the transport industry.

Which direction should the lettering run? Hannah pointed out that generally the lettering on the spine of a book runs from top to bottom. But this bag would be carried along the catwalk in the left hand of the model so which would like right to a viewer? More digital image play - this time using PowerPoint and SketchClub. I had a side view of a model so mocked up the lettering on the bag on PowerPoint and then added them to the photo in SketchClub. The left hand image looked right, so that is what I went with.

And so the bag was constructed in time to make the catwalk.

Not only did it make the catwalk, it also made it into the local paper, the Bradford Telegraph and Argus. A shame they don’t mention the Foundation Degree in Textiles Practice course, the sustainability focus of this project, nor A W Hainsworth .

So a special thanks to Hannah Lamb, our Course Leader, for giving us this opportunity and her encouragement throughout this project.

And thanks to staff at Hainsworth for providing such beautiful ‘waste’ material for us to use.

Drawing Parallels

Drawing Parallels
WasteAge Coat

WasteAge Coat