Intention For my final project, I wanted to explore my textile topic, macrame. My initial interest in macrame stems from the modern designs we see in a lot of home decor today. While I was doing my research into this topic, I found myself appreciating the long history behind this technique, and how accessible it …
My intention with this project was to expand upon work I’d been doing in another class: this semester I’ve developed an astronomical language in a conlang course, that uses various celestial bodies and orbital eccentricities to communicate. The language is spoken by empirically unknowable celestial beings, who manipulate time and space to create their words, …
Intentions: For this final assignment I wanted to build on the topic of my textile talk (fringe). This piece is a part of a larger series of work to be completed with my peer for Lunar Gala. While it is in principle about the use of fringe to emphasize various techniques for garment construction. Other …
Intention: When approaching this project, we knew that we wanted to explore a subject that we were both passionate and interested about, rather than delving into our separate, personal identities. We also knew that we wanted to create some sort of a wall hanging or a quilt, as it would allot us a large amount …
For this final project, I wanted to focus more on my family. With the holiday season coming around and Thanksgiving having just passed, I was thinking about the importance of family. I am one of five members in my family plus a dog. We are all very different in styles, looks, and talents. I …
Inspiration We were inspired by the Hong Kong protests to create a piece that would both raise awareness and show support for the protesters in Hong Kong. Both of our families are immigrants, Lisa’s from Hong Kong and Anne’s from China. Although we support the protests, some of our families are less aware of them …
For our Encoded Cloth Project, we created a map of our journey in life. This map was an abstraction of shapes and lines that was created with applique, hand stitching, sewing, and block printing. We used a various number of colors and illustrated this compare and contrast of Hannah’s life and Iris’ life into one …
Encoded Cloth Project Our Concept: Folkloric Cuban-Inspired Two-Piece Garment/Dress Inspo: The inspiration for our project came from a “Cuba” poster in Carolina’s room. Our Screen-printing: We printed on 3 yards of fabric using two screens; one for the blue and one for the red flags. We chose to be creative with the negative space in …
Our intent – Through our encoded cloth, quilting is used as a type of stream of consciousness making – upon which we are inscribing a sort of shared narrative of our bodies across space. The quilt, through this additive mark-making and stuffing process, becomes representative of the body itself. It tells the story of our …
We decided to make a series of hanging scarfs, as a representation of asexuality and bisexuality, two identities that we respectively identify with. We wanted to use the colors of the two pride flags, as well as symbolism from our lives, to show that even though sexuality is something that is present in our lives, …