Friday, 30 September 2016

The place where I live

I should have written posts at stages of making the dress for the Weaving Narratives Project but was too busy getting it finished ready for exhibitions!

The cotton sateen fabric from Offset Warehouse was dip-dyed in recognition of the dye-works at the end of the site, then discharge dyed to replicate the factory wall at the end of my garden (shown behind the dress drying on the line!)

Then it was screen-printed with a design based on Commer cars chassis from their catalogues.
The top layer of cotton voile was printed with a plan of the current residential estate.
























It can still be seen in Flitwick library October 13th - 15th along with a wealth of other textile art inspired by Bedfordshire Archives

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