Shanghai purses & textures workshop (3) 上海教學

 Other than botanical imprints skills I taught in Shanghai Jinze Arts Centre , I also taught the various techniques of wool felt making.  We used the swatches of eco prints students made to do wool felt embellishments and textures design. What else was the making of wool felt purses with straps done in one go and then eco-printed.
上海 金澤工藝社第二環節做羊毛氈化工藝,  製作手袋及立體肌理技巧. 兩天的學習, 學生們完成多款製作, 喜孜孜的來個大合照, 套用他們的術語 "完滿收官"!.

 These are the techniques of  eco printed textures, strap and flap in the workshop.

 Samples of my purses for their inspiration

 Most students like the "coblestone texture" a lot, so I taught them the making of such.

 Enclosed resist is used for the purse making

 I brought along various tools.  This one is boomerang souvenir from Australia, quite good for the corner shaping.

 This mini wedge from Heartfelt Silk is very good for edges and inside shaping and rubbing.

 A purse with one flap and the one as inner pocket, simply lovely of natural wool color.

The other one with eco-prints to make it bright.

 This one with a few euc silver dollar on the flap.

 This one is nuno felted with swatch prints of plum and euc.  A soft tone clutch.

 A bright purse with euc and little green from plum leaf.

 A purse is made with all Finn wool which is super easy felted

 A hat, a tea cosy or whatever you name it. Eileen made it with Finn wool and the little dots with her lovely cats hair.

 Another piece with strips tore from fabric and felted as decoration.  Intended to make it a purse but now may be a vessel.

 I demo the  making of "coblestone textures" with the natural printed swatch. Bright with alum mordanted euc, onion skins.

QinNan made the textures with her eco printed swatch with iron mordant.  So the dark shades.

 Students' 3D textures made

 A few different purses students made

 The whole set of eco print and wool felt - hair band, neck tie, nuno felt outfit, wool felt purse with and  iPad case with the fish mark.  

My students with their creations.........  See their happy smiles.....

  The lecturer and his student  both from Beijing design institute

Thank you my students and the team from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China made my week fabulous in Shanghai Jinze Arts Centre

Next post will be a wrap up of the workshop there.  

Shanghai workshop eco prints (2) 上海植物移印染工坊

 

Right after the swatches experiments of the local leaves, my series of workshops in Shanghai Jinze Arts Centre started.  One of the students made the outfit to go with my sample displays above. You'll see how they have fun days of eco prints.  

來自不同省份的學生在金澤工藝社 第一天的植物移印染從簡易的實驗到豐富的薄纖羊毛氈製作,  學員大部份有時裝設計與紡織專業, 因此他們很有觸覺的以我提供的款式及製作技巧設計了自家喜愛的獨特飄逸成衣.

 

We walked around the arts centre to collect leaves

Summer time is full of color, the flowers of melon are eye catching.  If the leaves give prints?

We got varieties of leaves of rose, mulberry, plum, pomegranate, maple, mandarin, a few unknown species...... plus some euc silver dollar from florist and onion shells from kitchen.......

They started swatch experiments with leaves collected. 

 

Though I've already told them what I'd tested and what  worked well, they liked to try different sorts. Good to let them explore all the possibilities themselves.

Technique of natural imprints with leaves is new to all my students. They're anxious to see the outcome after 2 hours boiling.

Green from leaves of melon and peach, red from euc silver dollar.

 

Each done a piece of swatch in the morning session with iron and alum mordant on fabric as well the leaves. 

                           Dark shades from iron.  Pastel soft from alum. 

          

                        Orange / red of euc from alum while dark from iron mordant

Veins of melon leaf

Rose leaves and other kind of unknown wild plant are dark with iron mordant.

Time to show the first swatches and critics to share.  Then decided what mordants and leaves they preferred to work for their bigger pieces to make it into their desired wearable with the reference of my basic sample designs.

Jack's piece with more euc silver dollar on both ends and in the centre with melon leaves.

 

Each have their own preference but still pastel soft tone

 

This one with the centre theme of rich prints.

 

Air drying overnight ....

 The fabrics are going to be a big project......

The following day I taught the skills of nuno felt  to make embellishments,  textural surfaces, edges connection, fine tune the edges....... such skills to make a wearable art without template and sewing.  The small sampling they made above.

All the colorful scraps used were the swatches done in the workshop.  That's how to make their colorful day !

Almost all students are with fashion design or textile background.   They concentrated in their own designs

Quite a big project  to work on.......

Nice piece with sleeves and soft wool draping front.

Jack's piece with bright prints on both sleeves ends and soft at the back

It goes nice with my samples on the dummy, right?

A long airy one with pastel prints

   Multi-styled outfit . 

 Tie a knot or waist tie around all goes well.

 

The back and the front

 

Dianea adores all the prints and does not want to cut away any piece.

 

She lined the edges with wool simply made it a big autumn themed shawl.

A shawl or a wrap .... pastel soft one.

 

Edith showed us her expertise advice to fine tune the draping of this vest.

 Girls tried the fitting.

 

       The boy,  a fashion design student made this one for her mum.  Such a nice guy. 

 This session students tended pastel soft prints rather than the dark iron mordant prints. The second day of nuno felt for wearable ended happily. The following day I taught the wool felt purse with textures and natural prints.

The adorable cats just to make sure settings are ready for the wool felt workshop next. 

Stay tuned for the purses and textures making ......