Assignment 4: Doppelganger of Drill — David Perry

The goal of this assignment was to learn how to create a pattern from a pre-existing object, then recreating the object in a soft form. I extended the project by trying to explore methods of integrating hard materials into a textile form.

I chose to create a Doppelganger of a Drill for this project.

The process started by covering the drill with tape then unwrapping all of the tape, with the goal of flattening it out and creating a pattern that could be cut from flat fabric. After flattening the pattern I scanned it and created a vector form of each of the pieces of pattern. Then I laser cut all of the pieces, along with some acrylic pieces to integrate into the form.

As you can see in the following photos there were many points at which the material wrinkles or folds very heavily — a lot of this is due to the complexity of the seams and pleating which was necessary within some of those seams. My hope would be that, in the future, I could learn how to prevent this distortion of material.