My textiles piece has evolved into a cross between Rebecca Earleys printed textiles and Debbie Smyths yarn drawings. The main foundation of the work is a piece of MDF - A1 sized. I have covered the MDF with some fabric I screen printed. The design I used for the screen print was a photocopy of a wire structure I made earlier on in the project. I have never used the screen printing method before, essentially it is a design transfered on to mesh.Ink is pushed into the mesh causing the lighter areas of the design to let the ink pass through, whilst the darker areas stop the ink getting through. The result is a stencil like image that can be reproduced many times.This method is shown above.
So... the stage i am at now...my MDF is covered in screen printed fabric. I have traced an images of some chaotic electircal cables on an indian street. I am going to place this tracing on top of the MDF board and put pins into all the relevant points of the tracing. I will then tear off the tracing paper which will leave an almost dot to dot outline of my image. I will then 'draw' this image out in yarn. I predict the outcome will be an abstract piece, hopefully it will be visually exciting, I will keep you posted :)
