Textiles for Seaside Apartment

The brief was to design fabrics for a couple, Kelly and Sid who have a seaside apartment. They were asking for fabric for a heavy door curtain, a throw, a felted log basket and some quirky accessories for the home. They supplied a number of items which were of particular interest to them, including the string of stones, some shells and some childhood toys.
The design work that follows was turned into fabric, woven on a Jacquard loom, and then hand and machine finished to produce a range of interesting fabrics for the purposes requested.

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One area I looked at for this design brief was shells, and used the markings on them for the design.
These three drawings were taken through into design and woven using the Jacquard loom to produce the fabric which was subsequently finished with various embroidery techniques.



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Two shells drawn for design.


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Drawing of driftwood, which when turned into an all over pattern, was woven on the Jacquard. It was a successful design which was finished with additional work.


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Drawing on left, which was transformed into repeat and then woven on the jacquard loom.

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Stones on left as drawn and on right after putting into pattern repeat. This was done for weaving on the Jacquard loom, but constraints of time meant this one was never actually woven.

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Drawing on right and put into pattern repeat on left