Fabricademy Week 7 : The Textile Scaffold – Knitted Fabric formation with concrete

Fabricademy Week 7 : The Textile Scaffold – Knitted Fabric formation with concrete

Knitted Fabric formation with concrete Part 1 – Concrete with knitting impressions Part 2 – Removing the knitted casing Part 3 – Other Concrete fabric formations Part 1 – Concrete with knitting impressions One of my favourite concept was the concrete with the knitting impression in it. I set about using some previous hand knitted […]

Fabricademy: Week 5: eTextiles & sensors : Assignment 2

Assignment 2: ATtiny Circuit Just to give a quick intro about what teh week was about, here is a review below from the documentation on Assignment 1. This class focused on exploring how we can produce soft circuits and sensors, to embed them into garments and wearables, using soft circuits and soft actuators. We will start […]

Fabricademy: Week 5: eTextiles & sensors: Assignment 1

Fabricademy: Week 5: eTextiles & sensors: Assignment 1

This class focused on exploring how we can produce soft circuits and sensors, to embed them into garments and wearables, using soft circuits and soft actuators. We will start with an overview of materials, components, tools and projects. Our global tutors were Hannah Pierre Wilson and Mika Satomi who make up KOBAKANT. In this week’s course, […]

Bio Dyes : Plant dyed yarns into products

Bio Dyes : Plant dyed yarns into products

Plant Dyes > Main post details here about the Fabricademy project assignment Bio dyes in detail > Sub post specifically focusing on the bio dyeing stages Sage and Rosemary dyed crochet pot   Fabricademy embroidered and lace carry-all pouch

MakeHuman: Background edits

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

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 […]