After brainstorming and reflecting, my final project ideas are below:
- A full rigid loom project, using brand new techniques to make an abstract landscape
- Specific techniques to learn:
- New knotting techniques
- Blending colors
- Different yarns on the rigid loom
- Meaning:
- Ive been practicing manifestation and working on improving my mentality about things through focusing on the good. I would like this project to be a switch from the bleak “Textiles from the Future” project and switch gears to a more hopeful visual and physical piece.
- Specific techniques to learn:
- A digital print, building on my illustrator skills to produce a powerful and personal reflective piece
- Specific techniques to learn:
- Get better at Illustrator. I want redemption!
- Sketching and transferring the very real things in my life to a 2D plane.
- Meaning:
- I want to use this piece to look inwards and reflect on the physical and metaphysical aspects of my life, combining them into a colorful and bright pattern with energy that reflects who I am.
- Specific techniques to learn:
- A big embroidery, with an intricate and personal pattern
- Specific techniques to learn:
- Creating symbols with my embroidery
- More embroidery stitches
- Meaning:
- It would be intriguing to create a textile piece that represents this absolutely weird moment in time. Through a detailed embroidery, I am excited by the idea of building up a representation of life that is captured not by a photo but by a physical textile.
- Specific techniques to learn:
More inspiration for a creative weaving project:
- Make a diary shadow box for different phases of your own life(with weavings) – make your own shadow boxes, press flowers, weave lil guys, put fabrics/objects in back as well
- Make a tech and weaving interaction – something that measures heartbeat?