This week's challenge was dressing up chairs with elastic fabrics such as tights, mutton cloth or other fabrics of our interest. The purpose of this process was to create large shapes and explore how those could work when being us as real actual pieces of clothing. Splitting up in teams of three people, we started working! The first step was to chose a chair of our preference and cover it with cling film all over so that the chair is protected and give a different shape on the surface.
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| The chair with cling film rolled all around |
After that, my team and I, started dressing the chair up with different tights and mutton cloth, and connecting the fabric in random shapes that we liked until a big part of the chair was covered.
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| chair with a beige tight |
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| a black tight added |
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| mutton cloth added ( final result- back) |
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| final result- front |
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| page from my sketchbook |
When finishing with the first chair, we decided to start a second shape with combining two other types of chairs( lower ones) so that the shape that would result out of it, would be one with many angles.We thought to cover those two chairs with a different material, so we used lightweight jersey fabric and the whole sculpture with one big piece of fabric, so that is looks more dramatic when being used as a part of a cloth on a mannequin.
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| 2nd sculpture |
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| Page from my sketchbook |
The last part of this session was to spread PVC glue all over the fabrics so that when they dry the become hard and keep their shapes and angles. This way we will be able to experiment with these shapes on the mannequins.
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| 2nd sculpture in the process of gluing |
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A dress by Emily Crane, made using gelatin. Ms. Crane also uses seaweed, natural flavor extracts, glycerin and food dyes in her clothing line.
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