This week I have been experimenting in making samples as a way of experimenting for what I am going to eventually make for this fashion project. At this point I don't have much of an idea for what I want to do for my final outcome other than I don't want it to be a conventional accessory such as a necklace or a bracelet etc. The brief explains to me that in this project we will be focusing on accessories rather than fashion garments. I am excited about this as in the past I have studied textiles and come out of the projects with garments, so I am excited to see what I come out with from this After experimenting with shapes and different household objects I found the most interesting to be the plastic string. I took three pieces and plaited them together and then made a coil out of them. Each piece was of a different colour and I thought this gave a really interesting effect and it is definitely something I would like to carry through for this project. Some other house hold objects that I experimented were real size and miniature wooden clothes pegs, cotton buds, pen lids and string.
I found that the wooden clothes pegs were good to interlock and attach them all together, however apart from this I could not come up with any other inventive ways of putting them together. For the cotton buds i attached them all with thread at the bottom and splayed them out at the other end, this didn't turn out particularly interesting but I thought it may be so if I photocopied it. For the pen lids I assembled them in a triangle shape design and held them together with thread. I found this object the most difficult to turn into a sample. The plastic used in the lid is so hard that it was pretty much impossible to manipulate so layering was the only thing I found I could do with this object.
I was happy with all my samples that I made and was excited to see how they would turn out once photocopied.
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