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Fastskin FS PRO – Streamlining the body

Fastskin - high performance swimwear

Fastskin – high performance swimwear

Studio Claudy Jongstra

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Studio Claudy Jonstra made this award winning carpet inspired by and from nature, using WOAD.

Check out the post on Trendtablet and her website and Blog post on from plant to colour……Food for thought on Blogging???? let me know what you think?

http://www.trendtablet.com/4155-talking-textiles/

http://www.claudyjongstra.com/process/from-plant-to-colour/87

 

Uruguyan sustainable fashion

Some beautiful Uruguayan Sustainable fashionXtextiles collaboration with interesting use of heritage textile techniques re-invented and interpreted with a  contemporary aesthetic. (Not Blue though!)

http://trendland.com/trendwatch-mercedes-arocena-and-lucia-benitez/

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Blue/Woad project

Molecular structure                   cosmic

 

3D hexagon        crystal

Color palette

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color palette

Weaving Woad

threading the warp here for the woad project. White cotton was used on a point draft.

Threading the warp for the woad project. White cotton was used on a point draft.

Yarn dyed with the used woad leaves to create a nude pink colour.
Yarn dyed with the used woad leaves to create a nude pink colour.

First we set up our warp in order to weave samples. We all used a white cotton warp as this was what was set for the power loom which we will use to weave our final samples into lengths. I liked the colour that was created by using the woad leaves that had already been dyed, and felt they would look good against the blue.

peg plan

Peg plan.

After the warp was set up we created some peg plans which would be put into the loom in order to create a pattern. The image below shows the sample with a similar colour that the woad leaves created, along with varying shades of blue reflecting the colours created in the woad dye workshops.

weave

weave

 

weft colours

weft colours

Lil & Lizzie

 

blue print

using my print into menswear illustration to show how this outfit wold work.

using my print into menswear illustration to show how this print would work.

Whitstable blues

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