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| These were the final pieces that I decided to make from my collection. Everything is hand dyed. |
Well I have my final shots back from the photographer, and I am incredibly pleased with the results.
Many thanks to Deanna Palkowski, Negar Hooshmand, and Matthew Burditt for their immense help with making the shoot go smoothly.
Now, a little bit about the collection. I started off wanting to make something completely structured, based off gothic architecture and, more specifically, specific churches and the architecture of those. As you can see... I strayed pretty far from that. I guess the closest remnant of that initial inspiration you can see here is the use of lace, which I was originally going to use as stained glass panels, and the wine-dyeing methods. Eventually the collection took a turn towards surrealism, with artists such as Max Ernst providing the inspiration for the colour palette.
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| Max Ernst , "Ein Mond ist guter Dinge" , 1970 |
Once I discovered different dyeing methods, they quickly took over my inspiration and I was trying everything and anything I could get my hands on to dye fabric. It was a fascinating learning experience; I am looking forward to continuing experiments with natural dyes and seeing what else I can come up with! I did use some synthetic dyes as well (the blue in the last dress, and the yellow dye, as well as the print in the first dress), but given more time (and money for test fabric... yikes), it would be interesting to experiment some more.
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| Coffee dyeing process- note that these shots were taken to look pretty, I didn't actually try to dye fabric in fancy bowls |
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| Using Setasilk paints and kitchen sponges to create the yellow dress print. |
-T
