M U L T I P L E S E X P E R I M E N T S
For the next stage in hand embroidery we had a bit of a 'wild card' brief. The brief was to produce new things using multiples of something. For this task I chose to use birthday candles, mainly because it meant I got to work in colour. We were given a list of verbs to apply to our objects. The verbs I based my ideas on were as follows :
To fire
To disarrange
To join
To flow
After thinking about this more I chose to use heat (to fire) and iron my candles over a shear fabric originally, however the outcome on the fabric samples shown below is actually from the backing fabric which was underneath the shear fabric when they were melted. It was a complete happy accident. The colours on the fabric are lovely and pale.
After melting several designs I then decided to stitch french knots and granny knots into my samples which proved a little tricky considering I was using a firm backing fabric and wax.
I highlighted some of the flowing areas of the wax by using running stitch along some of the edges of colour
I also used some seeding to give texture.
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