Thursday, March 21, 2013

Wool in a Life; a material investigation


“Wool in a life”


Coming from a farming background and currently studying fashion, I am fascinated by wool and the extreme life-cycle it undergoes. I conducted a material investigation exploring techniques such as Nuno-Felting and creating 3D forms in felt. I used atypical elements found in the shearing shed such as discarded wool sweepings, dirt, rusty objects and bark as a way of forming colour and texture which speaks of the beginning of the cycle of wool. My aim for this project was to portray the remarkableness of wool in its processed state,  as well as the beauty in the natural and the dirty which may even compel this component to be ‘fashion’, so continuing the cycle. 



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