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A video of the laser cutter, cutting a length of my dyed fabric ready to go in my final piece.

Using some of my rust dyed samples, i have done some needle embellishment combining different types of fabric and felt fibres. I have manipulated these samples, to try and establish a more rusted effect. I used a circular shape to resemble lichen. These embellishments will be taken further into my final piece.

I have been dyeing with rust, cabbage and tea and this is the result for the first one, i am very happy with the result.

Up to date images of my textile module.

currentfrequency asked: I just wanted to say: your work is so inspiring! I've been interested in textile design lately, but this - this is art. I think I want your life. Do you do all of your stuff on campus? Or do you have your own studio space? You think it's possible to play with textiles in a tiny flat? Is there any absolute basics someone who's starting out should know, or do you recommend just experimenting with everything? Sorry for the barrage of questions ~ keep being awesome!

thank you so much! yeah i do pretty much everything on campus, all three years are in one big studio then we have a dye lab at one end, then digital printing, laser cutting and sewing the other. But i do have my own space within that studio, its a desk with small walls around it, i have previously put pictures up of it. Depending on what you want to do i think you can do it anywhere, if i’ve got little bits to do i do them in my room in my student house. During my A-levels i didn’t get much work done at school i used to sit on my lounge floor and do it there, however then i wasn’t using dyeing techniques etc. If you’re just starting i’d recommend looking at a few artists and maybe doing a few studies on them, maybe try and take what they’ve done and recreate it in your way but with their influence, i think that will help you learn a few things. but keep experimenting with anything you want, you normally find things out from accidents so experimenting is best, hope this helps.

Printing in progress.

I have been using Photoshop to construct some files for digital printing that i am going to do tomorrow. I intend to make a fabricated book for my final piece, these lengths when printed will either folded in half for pages or cut in to. I wish to use a semi transparent fabric so the image can be seen on both sides and one is able to see through to the next page. I hope to further manipulate these once they are printed.

A drawing I have been doing for part of my decay project. I hope to have it finished very soon so I can get it digitally printed on to some fabric.