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!

Fair Trade Fortnight - Day 12

A lovely sunny day today which made me get out the fun People Tree tunic t-shirt designed for the Olympics but with wider messages.

















This is worn with Monkee Genes and Conker bar sandals, but wasn't suitable for work in the evening.

Home after work!

The lovely Terra Plana shoes just had to feature somewhere this fortnight so I chose to wear them with a 'little black dress' from People Tree with a Nomads cardigan, and a 'statement' pendant of fused glass, wire and beads made by Sarah Campbell and available from the gallery at Art Van Go.