SHAPES, COLOR, TEXTURE, FABRICS --- A WONDERFUL MELD

  The final stage of this sequential design was a 3-dimensional composition. Students studied all their various created forms and selected several to be redesigned with cords, yarns, threads, and fabrics. Simplicity was required since this would be most suitable for yarn wrapping and material folds and layers. Several methods of wrapping were considered and each student selected and modified them as they desired. A few are shown below.

SIMPLE PROCEDURES AND GREAT RESULTS

  The final design plan was sketched on a firm cardboard as the base for the fabric collage. Most of our materials were donated curtain, carpet and upholstery samples and yarn skeins. Home supplies added some additional sources.

Students were encouraged to think and arrange in contrasting textures and layers, constructing lower levels first and building materials upwards. Besides the samples offered, they were invited to invent new methods of fabric attachments and interesting textural patterns.

Here is the beginning of a collage with 3 levels of materials, curved and straight linear patterns, individual and continuous circular wraps, and silky thin, velvet and tufted drape and upholstery fabrics. To the right is the completed work emphasizing two axis and many modified shapes.