CG: We have established a workroom
in the College. Collaborations have been formed and are now in
action, working towards more defined
projects.
Gordon, Margaret, Mary and Steph are
working on seaming and joining and the potential of contrasting
qualities – man-made
with natural materials. The idea is to make features of seams.
Christine
is working on the past in the present, on control and disruption,
on faux and real. She is interested in the dynamic and visual
iconography of the football pitch and its model version in Subbuteo,
a made
up trade name of 'subbuglio' meaning confusion, turmoil,
and 'teo' from theological. 'This word is a
wonderful concoction of religion and chaos like many football
matches'.
Hazel and I are re-examining glove forms
and making a possible range of gloves – knit and embroidered,
knitted felt, knitted acrylic, knitted wool (un-felted) and
printed glove. We are using
the cut outs to make scale changes, zooming in and out of different
found textures.
Heather and Susan are developing a range
of knitwear, working with Walter, the knitting machine technician,
to produce a
prototype of a sleeveless jumper, a basic garment with interchangeable ‘necklaces’ as
a range of adornments as scarves or jewelry that are worn
with the jumper.
Norma is printing directly from her own
feet producing a
long banner through silk screening processes based on the
idea of
a journey.
Freddie is experimenting with single fibres joined
into a textile by means of paint as well as using paint as
a
solid
material.
HD: In talking with Margaret, she tells
me that in her experience of running the shop, Fibres, she
has noticed
that Shetland
people don’t buy the same things as people who
come to Shetland from abroad.
"I'm always left with the brown
and the green...I don’t
know if it’s the landscape (that accounts for
this)"
She explains that you have to make a prototype of a
prototype when gettting a new design done on the industrial
machines.
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