Initial Ideas

One "Apron" in particular from Platt Hall was the 1870-1890's style, made from black silk, with a small bib and decorated with ribbons and metal threads. It includes a slightly pointed off centred pocket, the fastening is a similar construction to a rouleux loop. This "Apron" content and concept is similar to what I want to produce as I will be using drawings from the "Downing Archive" in particular the ribbons and trimming drawings.

From this archive material I decided to draw up some initial design ideas and compositions of "Aprons" to help with sample ideas and shapes.
My original drawings needed to be developed so that they furthered ideas and fit the concept easier, therefore I decomposed them into colour and simple linear shapes and further patterns.

Looking over my previous tutorial and the advice given to follow the ideas of ribbons and trimmings, it was suggested to me to look at Korean patchwork techniques to join future samples together. However I didn't find that this was fitting into my style of working, along with my initial ideas but I will keep this technique in mind for future reference.