Inspiration and remembering - M⏃D BUNNY

This is a blog I found in assignment 1. when I went to find the home of one of my concept board images.

Its probably the most beautiful blog ever ! Its full of photographs of landscapes, people, places, things that posses a raw and natural quality. There is a sense of past and silence within each image. I do not want to forget this with my collection so I think I need to remember the staining of fabrics and the degrading look of fabrics.

http://madbunny.tumblr.com/

The staining of my garments is very important with creating a memory within the garments, will look into tea dying tonight. I think tea dyeing or spot dying will give each garments a feeling of warn and past use.

p.s Sorry about the uneven layout of pics, blogging is not my specialty

Beaded Singlet

Making a singlet with bead trim and the tube knit mutton cloth.

Details of the making. Instead of individual beading I threaded a whole line of beads then simple looped around it while rolling the hem. Because I stretched out the knit while hemming it has created a beautiful wave edge.

Back.

Front.

Final. Because there is no seams the garment is very comfortable and the fabric is warm, however the beads are quite cold when first put on. I am thinking of adding more beaded straps.

Quick experiments with finishings

Experimenting with finishing last night  

Thicker muslin cloth with beaded edge, beads sewn individually while hemming (quite time consuming)

Thinner muslin with bound edge (very roughly done) , played with stitcing on the cloth and on the binding.

Knitting Experiement

 Last Night 

 I decided to give dying the cotton yarn a try, I used blue fabric paints and watered it down. I wanted to wind the yarn up to get different shade variations. I found the dye did not absorb readily so i took out the cardboard cylinder and used a wooden chopstick to give pound the yarn which seemed to help the absorbing process.

Drying out the yarn.

Knitting Experiment

I tried to combine all of the yarns I brought (+ black thread) and create a rough fabric with transition of colour. I tried to create holes here and there to coincide with my theme. This is heavily inspired by Rodarte 2008. This is just one technique I could use to replicate the colour variation happening in my previous collection, I could also try drip dying the pre-knitted fabric which would create a smoother transition. I do however like the textural contrast between the yards