Fabricademy Week 10: Implications and Applications
A goal of mine for this Fabricademy course was to work on a project which used waste Textiles. This weeks assignment has led me to look into the reason behind my future project, my intentions and how I might be able to achieve it in the short & long term Below is the class ouitlina […]
Fabricademy Week 9: E-Textiles and Wearables 2
This weeks assignment was to continue developing our initial eTextiles projects started in Week 5 We were given two lectures by tutor Becky Stewart, who is a professor at Queen Mary University of London, an expert on electronics and integrating them into projects. Assignment 1: Create an interactive object; if you are already experienced with coding, focus […]
Fabricademy Week 8: Open Source Hardware – from fibres to fabrics
This class was based upon the open source hardware field and we focused on its potential in the area of textile. Our instructors this week were Mar Canet & Varvara Guljajeva. We looked at how we could enhance out of date machines for making textiles and how we might take advantage of fabricating digitally. We […]
Fabricademy Week 7 : The Textile Scaffold – Textile composites using Vacuum forming
Textile composites using Vacuum forming and Milling Part 1 – Bio resin made with gelatin Part 2 – Resin and vacuum Part 3 – Design and Milling Part 1 – Bio resin made with gelatin Here are the stages we did to create a Gelatin Bioplastic composite. Mix & create the horrid gelatin solution place the fabrics (dry) […]
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 7 : The Textile Scaffold
The class this week focused on exploring techniques and applications of technical textiles in the industry and our Global Instructor was Anastasia Pistofidou. We were introduced to the idea of designing custom processes that need a set of tools, a few processes and a consistent workflow. We looked at applications and we experimented with many materials […]
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