Fabricademy Week 4: Bio dyes in detail
Plant Dyes > Main post details here about the Fabricademy project assignment Part 1 – Making plant dyes Part 2 – Home natural dye experiments – preparation Part 3 – Home natural dye experiments – Results Part 4 – Plant dyed yarns into products > Post details here Part 1 – Making plant dyes One of my loves is being […]
Fabricademy Week 4: Bio dyes & Bio plastics
This class focused on researching materials and different naturally sourced dyes which are alternatives to the current synthetic shop-bought ones. Our Gklobal tutor this week was Cecilia Raspanti. We were able to explore a wide range; from natural dyes using found plants or powdered natural pigments and bacteria, to making bioplastics from animal and plant […]
MakeHuman: Background edits
MakeMake Human – Background edits Following on from my project of making a interlocking mannequin (see post here), I wanted to test a few more things out in MakeHuman. In doing so, I discovered that you can place a background into the program and create all sorts of cool and silly and outright impossible images. […]
Fabricademy Week 3: Circular open source fashion – Modular
This weeks subject of creating a modular pattern is something that I have always thought about using for waste textiles and making them into designs. I really enjoyed transforming the (pineapple) felt fabric, which I also chose for my final experiment, as well as incorporating both the positive and negative cut pattern into useable modular […]
Website Launch – gillianbestpowell.com
Yesterday, to celebrate the life of my mother Gillian Best Powell, I launched her updated website on what would have been her 62nd birthday. It has been just over a year since her sudden passing and I wanted to create a positive and colourful way to share her memory. www.gillianbestpowell.com I have documented, photographed and uploaded […]
In3dustry & Reshape.io Wearable Technology Awards Barcelona 2017
When I received an invite to In3dustry from my fellow Makerversity memeber Paul Sohi (me now being an alumni via Architecture for Humanity UK), all my textile-spidey senses said YES PLEASE! Or, claro que si. Paul works for AutoDesk, the “software company who makes software for people who make things”. He was one of the speakers […]
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