Nottingham Contemporary Jacquard Throw

Jacquard Throw.
Top photograph shows the fabric being woven on the loom.
The next photographs show the hand embroidery done after the fabric left the loom. The stitch used was chain stitch and the throw took 70 hours work to finish after being woven.

The throw has 174 feet of chain stitch at approx 12 stitches per inch, which means it consists of approx 25,056 stitches of embroidery!









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Nottingham Contemporary - Monarch

Several designs were worked on the Monarch Knit machine but were very difficult to photograph to show the design.
The larger scale design has the background taken from one of my own pieces of hand made lace, a tally ground, found in Bedfordshire Lace.






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Nottingham contemporary - Jacquard

A selection of the Jacquard designs produced in this range from the Nottingham Contemporary inspiration.

Some of the designs have been hand embroidered to embellish them.



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Nottingham Contemporary

The final stages of work were taken from the Nottingham Contemporary design work for the facade of the building. The concrete lace panels shown here, were designed from an 1847 piece of Richard Birkin machine made Valencienne lace.
I was involved in this design work for the building.
http://www.derby.ac.uk/textiles/news/contemporary-arts-building

I took this design and developed it further for the final collection of textiles.
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Monarch Lace Knit

This collection of fabrics derived from the stone carvings in the artwork

They were produced on a Monarch Knit machine.
Apart from the metallic grey, the soft colours were obtained by knitting the fabric in white and then dyeing afterwards, to co-ordinate with the selected colour palette.




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Hand Weaving

The project is to produce a range of contrasting fabrics - this part is for blinds and window dressing to cause light diffusion. The range is woven in silk and fine cotton in double cloth structures, with the loom set at 40EPC.
The resultant fabric is semi translucent, which unfortunately cannot be shown in these photographs.



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Jacquard Designs

Jacquard weaving with pulled thread hand embroidery to embellish and finish.













































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The Art work

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The Brief

A project of opposites, inspiration drawn from exterior stone architectural features to provide the basis for design for interior light diffusing textiles.

The research is based around stone carvings found in architecture, many found in the lace market area of Nottingham, through to the design work I completed for the Nottingham Contemporary building concrete lace panels. The designs span a period of 150 years of architecture, and used for the basis of designs for contemporary interior soft furnishings, focusing on light diffusion through the glass areas of buildings.

The collection will consist of a range of weights of fabrics, to encompass the texture of the stonework, and also the range of natural and neutral colours. The collection will be divided into two areas, which will contrast and compliment each other.

The heavyweight jacquard fabrics to be based on the textures of the stone drawings, and after washing to have areas cut away and embellished with drawn thread and pulled thread embroidery. By using techniques of cutting away and embellishing, the fabric will have contrasting weights within it.

The lightweight fabrics to be made up of hand woven silks using texture again within the fabrics, in the form of pleats, and floats to give a semi translucent fabric to diffuse light for window dressing. The influence in this area is Salt and Rezia Wahid.
Also in the lightweight fabrics, to explore the Monarch knitted lace from the same designs as the jacquard, to give another area of contrast.

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