SAMPLING

Finding inspiration from materials sourced in London, I combined designs produced from inspiration within gouache painting in my sketchbook and created an Ethos design consisting of rectangles paired together and composed leaving a varied density - the stitches had a high pitch meaning there were gaps replicating the dip dye of the woven material. The optical movement in this sample is effective as it successfully allows your eyes to dance across the surface, replicating a relief structure. I aim to create more samples that don't have focus. Achieving this effect with the choice and pitch of multihead stitching, carefully deciding on an effective surface to work across.

 Multihead Sample.

Producing these sample ideas onto black and blue check material, to understand the proportions and colour contrasts that most effectively create an illusional quality which creates a dynamic structured pattern. Allowing the samples to become reversible by stitching onto both sides alternately, creating stripes and form from squares, rectangles and checks was successful in referring back to my concept of un-noticed beauty - the hidden details with the newly formed fabric were simultaneously developed alongside the re-construction of graffiti into a reformed commercialised pattern.
Developing upon my findings by designing sample designs to work over striped and plain fabrics that when processed have a similar effect to form a new collection of experimentation - sourced from sketchbook research combined with the contextual and commercial element of artist research.