Textile as Scaffold
For week 6, the class focuses on techniques and applicaitons of technicalt extiles in the industry.
I want to be able to use textile and various materials to manipulate fabrics to create interesting results.
I used what I learned from last weeks class in exploring techniques and application to develop sugar crystallization prototypes and textile + wood composites.
Research
I researched recipes of crystallization techniques and because I have a lot of sugar in my house. I decided that sugar crystallization was the best and most convenient way for me to create crystals in my house.
With wood textiles, I was inspired by Eliza Strozysk wooden-textile peice and I wanted to create something that was interesting and flexible like that. I used 3mm plywood and various materials to create wood + textile prototypes with triangle shapes.
Sugar Crystallization
Materials
- 2 cups of water - for each solution
- 6 cups of sugar(Brown Sugar and Domino Sugar) - for each solution
- Crochet/Knitting needle
- Glass jars/beakers
- Spoon
- Sauce Pot
- String, Yarn, Rope
Procedures
- Crochet a yarn design.
- Boil water in the sauce pot.
- Put sick cups of sugar into the sauce pot and stir until it feels soupy and saturated.
- When the solution is saturated put it in a beaker or glass jar.
- Tie yarn design onto a spoon and dipped it into the sugar solution.
- Waited for crystals to connect to the yarn.
- After crystallization, put it onto a plate.
Wood + Textile
Materials
- 3mm plywood
- Neoprene
- Stretchy Lycra
- Trotec Lasercutter
- Hot Glue Gun
- Adobe Illustrator
Procedures
- Design equilateral triangles with isometric method in adobe illustrator.
- Glue the plywood to neoprene.
- Use the Laser Cutter to cut the plywood without cutting neoprene.
- View that the Laser Cutter did not cut through the neoprene.
- It is valuable to teest and prorotype wood + textile to show that it doesn't cut through the fabric.
- Finalize the Wood + Textile. It worked on the Trotec with the Power: 44, Velocity: 125, Frequency: 1000.
- Cut the extra peices.
Results
I had positive results for both wood + textile and sugar crystals. It required a lot of testing and trial and error.
