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Shades of Indigo.

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Phew!!  We certainly hit the ground running in the second year of my degree course….. Our module brief  'Shades of Indigo' asked us to create designs for fashion textiles using 'indigo' as our colour palette. Well, everything has turned blue, not only paper and fabric, but my hands( no gloves) and  several white shirts (oh.. where did I put my apron) . I needed to produce thirty paper designs and fifteen fabric designs using print, stitch and manipulation. Heres a selection of my work. My inspiration came from my summer sketchbook. I had experimented with Oriental brush painting. I also looked at Japanese textiles especially 'Boro' with is now considered an art form although it was initially a utilitarian way of preserving clothes and other textiles. During my further research I looked at the work of 'Yayoi Kusama' who lives and works in Japan and works with repeated 'Polka Dots.