Today I went to get more fabric samples which are more specific to my project and themes. When I started looking around I realised that when seeing my colour scheme in fabric I didn't like how the colours worked together as much as I had with pen and paper. So after a while I began to choose fabrics which I liked the look of and worked well together and slowly a natural colour scheme of earthy tones, lime greens and burnt oranges evolved. I like this colour scheme a lot and it relates well with the research I was doing on nature and flowers. I got fabrics such as suede as it is something that was used a lot in the 70s and lots of warm knits and wools as I am doing an Autumn/Winter collection.
Next I went to a yarn shop and bought some really nice chunky yarn which is usually used for felting but I'm going to use it for weaving instead. I want to do some more experiments with weaving after reading a book about African textiles and seeing that a lot of it was made through weaving so I think this will be good thing to incorporate into my final piece.
Tomorrow I'm going to carry on designing but I am going to use these fabric samples to help inform my designs so I can have a better idea of what these clothes could be made from. I also want to do lots of experiments with weaving and see if I can recreate some of my print designs into a weave.
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