At the moment I am in the middle of my fourth year of a Bachelor of Design at COFA (UNSW). For the last four months I have devoted most of my time into the fourth year major project.
I designed and modeled a labeling system that combines jewellery and textiles to create a wearable tag. The objective of the project was to provide more information to consumers about the artisans and production behind handmade indian products. These are some photos that I took of the process and end product. You can read more about what the project was about at the Advocate for the Artisans website.
Natural dye testing with Logwood on wool yarns.
Natural Dye testing with Lac.
As well as using these tests for my major project I was able to utilize these threads in my weaving project, more about that later.
A screen print test, experimenting with different typefaces and how clearly they would print. These pictures are of the exposed screen held up in the light. I screen printed a lightly coloured resist paste on a lightly coloured fabric so that I could dye the fabric after it was screen printed. Unfortunately, the resist paste came out a lot in the dyeing process so the test results didn't produce any nice photos but I will post the results up later.
The first soldering stage in producing my bells. I was so pleased to discover that tenacity flux helped me solder much more quickly and easily than borax flux. While my tests took a few days for me to solder properly with borax, these took me an afternoon!
One of my bells bound before the cap is soldered on.
My pretty pods! I was thrilled with such a raw and colourful finish.
The finished products.
These are models for how the labeling system would work.
The final presentation.
