Prints on Cotton Velvet

This is my favourite cotton velvet sample. The dye worked well and the pigments came through clear and bold  through the screen. I didn't use the rose screen on this sample and think it looks better with out that screen. I like how the screens aren't lined up exactly and the shadowing effect it gives.

This was my least favourite sample. The grey pigment had smudged and  the fabric had got some yellow dye on. I decided to leave this sample after it smudged just to show what the pattern looks like with just the first three screens.

This sample matched up really well, although having experimented  with other colours, I found that I preferred the pigments I'd been using previously. I thought the pinks looked slightly tacky next to the grey background. 

For this samples I dyed the fabric using a reddy- brown dye. I liked the brown pigment against the dye but it didn't match well to the hanging sample.

Prints on Cotton

This was the first sample i produced and was really happy with the outcome. I was really happy the screens finally worked having had to have them re-exposed. I also really liked the pigments i used.

This sample worked a lot better lining up but  I
prefer the other.

These two samples were produced together, next to each other.
As you can see this one didn't line up a swell as the other as I
couldn't see through the pigment on the screen. I did like this effect
though. 

I really liked this sample, although it is a bit busy. I would have liked to  repeat  this without as many screens.

Prints

This sample is on Habotai Silk with all five screens. I liked this sample but I think using all five screens was too heavy for the light weight material.

These three sample are on Heavy Viscose Satin and are my favourite of all my samples. The print works really well on these and I would have liked to use this as the chosen fabric.

Devore

This sample worked not as well as I would have liked, and decided to use only two screens over the top of the  devore.

This is my favourite devore sample. The screens lined up well  and the colours worked well with the white background.

This is my least favourite of all the samples. for some reason the pigments wouldn't  take to the fabric properly and the dye turned out horribly.

Puff Binder

This sample didn't work as well as I would have liked. This was Azeta with the screen five devored. I then printed on top using screens one and three, and puff binder with screen four. The puff binder didn't work as well as I'd have hoped.  

The pufff binder didn't work as well on this
sample though

These two samples were done together, to enable that I had a sample
lined up and another off set, but in the end i preferred the off set
effect and did this to both samples.

This was a sample using only screen three and five  with puff binder onto the hanging sample. I did this to make sure my colours worked and really liked this sample.

This is probably my least favourite puff binder sample as it didn't seem to work right on top of pigment.

This sample was done using screens one, two and three and screen five is puff binder.

In the Print Room

Final Koda Trace

Koda-Tracing

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Final Design

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Visual Sheets

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Mood Board

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Furniture

The armchair we are designing fabric for, is very similar to the one above. The wood in the room will be a cherry wood. 

The table and chairs Alison is having made for the dinning room will be similar to these above.

Live Brief Time!

 I have been such as busy bee during this project and haven't had as much time to blog as much as I would have liked. For this project we are working with a live brief, which means working with clients who work with in either the fashion industry or interior design industry.

 Our tutor set up meetings with two clients and after listening to the brief of each one, we then had to choose either the fashion based brief or the interior based brief. The chance of working with either client would have been a great experience, but I believed the best brief for me would be the interior design brief. For this project we are working with interior designer Alison Cooper. Our client is Mr. Jonathan Walker-Kane, a barrister with a home in Thurlstone, Sheffield. 

 The room Alison is re-creating, is a Victorian styled dinning room, in which the interior is totally wrong, as the house was built in the Arts and Crafts era. Alison has a table and chairs been made similar to ones designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The room's colour scheme is to be very pale grey and the drapes are a light weight silk in pale grey and oyster. 

 Our task is to research into Charles Rennie Mackintosh, as well as other Arts and Crafts artists. From this we are to take inspiration and create our own design to be printed onto a fabric which will then feature on a armchair Alison is having made for the dinning room. The winning design will be used for this armchair.