Boning, Foiling, Bonding, embedding
Week 6:
Boning samples
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Boning samples .
Caged boning with cotton strips anchored at the bust
Caged boning with cotton strips anchored at the neck
Caged boning with cotton strips anchored at the waist
Incorporated boning in quadrant with zipper, anchored at the waist to create skirt
Incorporated boning in quadrant with zipper, anchored at the waist to create shawl/jacket
Incorporated boning in quadrant with zipper, anchored on the top of the curved standing chair, creates an interesting tail bone support and/or uncomfortable ways of sitting on a chair
New perspective - Internal experience
Interior of boning casing, a new perspective on what a boning quadrant could be- an immersive experience
Pin-tuck and Mexican pleated cotton sample with foiled oval and circle that turned out better than my first trial on the stretch fabric
soft handle of fabric maintains a structured volume, altered by the pin-tucks. Foiling has a med to high lustre, creating a great reflection when touched by light
sample draped on the front of the bodice
front on bust drape
Polyester stretch fabric with gathering and embedding - rough and unflattering outcome, used polyester thread and didn't change my needle to stretch needle, causing fabric bunching in various areas
Stretch polyester sample with embedded felt rectangle and foil overlay: Gathering turned out a little better however the foiling and the glue created stiffened areas that affected the soft handle of the fabric
Toshiko MacAdam
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Toshiko MacAdam .
Japanese textile artist Toshiko Macadam is best known for her work with large-scale textile structures, such as "textile playgrounds" for children, brightly coloured net-like structures of crocheted and knotted nylon”. This playful experimenting of material and environment can be explored further through boning and the environment - how volume and space create a relationship when forced together
Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam’s crochet play sculpture ‘Knitted Wonder Space 2’ at Hakone Open Air Museum
Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam’s crochet play sculpture ‘Knitted Wonder Space 2’ at Hakone Open Air Museum
Antonio José de Barros Carvalho e Mello Mourão
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Antonio José de Barros Carvalho e Mello Mourão .
Also known as Tunga ( 1952 – 2016), “was a Brazilian sculptor and performance artist internationally acknowledged for his large-scale, uncanny installations, intertwining reality with fiction. Originally trained as an architect, Tunga explored a diversity of languages, which surpassed the traditional realm of the visual arts, to embrace literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis as well as chemistry and alchemy” - Curating contemporary, 2018
The way Tunga would embed artefacts into his netting works quite literally, allows for the original artefact/ object to be highlighted and viewed in relation to the scale of the installation. A take away from Tunga would be to explore scale and embedding in a more literal manner rather than pressed felt; the shibori sample takes this concept into account, as the spoon sample did recreate the “embedding” concept with the 3D shibori technique.
