Vanners

The Timothy Everest project was a competition to have your jacket fabric woven up and made into a suit by their tailors. The design team came to watch our presentation day as well as the director from Vanners silk mill. He chose my tie designs to be made up at the mill and made into ties! I went to the mill for the day in Suffolk to see my fabric being made up on the industrial looms.












Here is the finished tie! I am so happy with it. I got to of them and 1 metre of the fabric. I am keeping one for my portfolio and one is being passed round people to wear because I can't decide who to give it to.






I love it!

Timothy Everest

This was a project in collaboration with tailor Timothy Everest. The brief was to design jacket and tie fabrics with the theme English Heritage.

I based my research on Windsor Great Park in Berkshire.

This is my moodboard and colour scheme with images from my sketchbook.


For the jacket fabrics I used a colour and weave brown and orange striped wool warp, with a second turquoise silk warp so I could experiment with velvet and corduroy.

Woven jacket samples






For the tie fabrics I used an orange and turquoise striped silk warp to match the jacket fabrics.

Woven tie samples







Illustrations

Design and Make

The first project in year 2 of the course was a design and make project. The theme was nomads and I focused my research on tribes and the circus.

These are some initial research drawings.










This is a moodboard of found images and photocopys from my sketchbook which formed the colour scheme for the project.


Print samples











Woven samples






Illustrations



Photoshoot