Monday, 1 November 2010

Final Textiles

These are my two final textile elements that I am going to incorporate into my final design. The first one, I have dyed lace and hand stitched into it. I wanted to show the utter chaos of her life yet show the soft feminine side of her nature and the times.

The second, is my favourite I used heat muslin to achieve this. I took inspiration from the love letters I had looked at, looking at the shapes. I then developed this into a surface pattern using machine embroidery. At first it tended to look abit too 'pretty' and I felt like it wasn't showing the pain of her situation as a Mistress. So i left it to hang off the chiffon and I am going to use it on the train of the skirt. Making it look as if her skirt got caught in the door fleeing from the Kings bed chamber.

I am pleased with my results, but yet again I have chose a very time consuming technique!

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