A few wee final fabrics

More exciting photos to come!

New Portfolio Website!

Come and Follow me at...

Http://CargoCollective.com/JoFaulkner

Sarah Maycock-inspiration

Just stumbled upon Sarah Maycock's work as she is exhbiting in a few days at the Pick me Up fair in Somerset House, and I have fallen in love...

View her website HERE.

New Designers 2012

I will now officially be showing at New Designers London at the Buisness Design Centre, in the Angel Islington, with the rest of my class from the Glasgow school of art, June 27th-30th.

Come and say hi at stall T36!

Degree show update: sustainable fabrics//natural dyes

So! After recieving the Gillian Purvis final year award, I have been spending my money nicely(and easily)on lots of sustainable fabrics. I have especially enjoyed using bamboo silk, bamboo jersey, hemp sweatshirt, hemp cotton poplin, organic cottons and soy jersey. I will post photos of these soon.

I have also brought a huge range of natural dyes and I am just in the process of experimenting with these, as you can see in my 'In the print room' post! However I am finding it difficult to achieve any blue or green hues with the natural dyes... The colours are so vivid though and its a really exciting process. I hope to use these fabrics and dyes as much as possible in my final samples, but if really necessary I will use the dyrect or procion dyes to obtain the colours that are proving tricky...


My favourites so far have been...

Annatto Seed

Birch Bark

Brazilwood

Elderberries

Logwood Chips

Madder Root

and Safflower.

Keep Posted for the results of the tests soon! 

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Initial Visualisations

Basic Block Development

In the Print Room...

simplesamples