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
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
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 […]
Fabricademy: Week 2: Digital bodies
One of the projects which immediately got be hooked on doing the FabTextile course was the fact that we would be building our own mannequins. Not only this but learning how to design them. I’ve really enjoyed catching up on this weeks project! Now I have the basic structure of a mannequin that I will […]
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