Weaving Narratives

I am taking part in Weaving Narratives, a textile-based community art project celebrating the history of Bedfordshire's towns, in conjunction with Bedfordshire Archives.  I am hoping to design clothing with fabric designs that reference the history of the place where I live, for more on this see the blog post I wrote for the project.

The wall at the end of my garden is the remains of factories previously on the site which I will use for my colour palette.






Then I think I will use chassis patterns from the vehicles built here to form a stripe pattern.










I had a play at some samples during a recent workshop with Clive Barnett at Art Van Go. He showed us how to create layers of pattern using mono-printing and screen-printing techniques and Procion dyes thickened with Manutex. Great fun - but not all the techniques will translate to larger pieces of fabric!