China Crisis - a look at Wedgwood Jasperware

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The starting point for this assignment was a visit to Nottingham Castle and an exhibition they had, on Wedgwood Jasperware.

I particularly liked the items which were not in the colours that you normally associate with Wedgwood (ie not in the shades of blue), such as the two scent bottles I have drawn above.

I decided to use this colour palette for my knit samples.

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Knitted sample done in two variations of tuck stitch, which I then machine washed to partially felt. The flowers were then needle felted and applied, and beads added afterwards.








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Two samples using punch cards. Left also using tuck stitch. Right using lace holes which were subsequently threaded with ribbon with fleece needle felted to it.


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Two samples, left - using tuck stitch and hanging in threads, then hooking up

right - using weaving threads.


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Two knitted samples. Sample on right had the lemon coloured leaves worked afterwards in bobbin lace techniques.

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Knitted item to wear

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This was the final piece in this assignment. The brief was to design something to wear, but not a garment, based on the samples and art work from Wedgwood Jasperware.

My piece, this collar is modelled by fellow student, Sarah.

The piece was made using various knit techniques, and finished with a crochet frill around the edge, felted ribbon through lace holes on the front, and needle felted flowers which were also beaded.

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Visual Studies - Shine a light

This visual studies assignment was based around projected images. A number of items were initially projected onto walls using an OHP. I have a special interest in hand made lace, and as some of the items were machine made lace, I used this as a reason to branch off into lace as a source.
I also photographed cobwebs with frost on, in the garden and used these as a source.
The idea was initially, to use black and white, with the designs being based around the silhouettes created by the projected images.
When the designs were taken into print, you could then reintroduce colour into the designs, but I decided against this and used monochrome for this assignment.
The prints were then subsequently embellished by various means to enhance the print.

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