Primary research

Today I planned on going on a visit to cannon hall to collect primary research of the arts and craft movement, much to my disappointment it is closed up until Easter but I was able to collect some images of flowers which hasn't decayed through autumn these will help as William Morris and mackintosh both used flowers in some point in there career and they were seen all over the arts and craft movement

Final bag.

The final out come of my bag is exactly how I expected it, all the prints and colour go so fantastically with each other, the felted bottom didn't work as well as hope because the fibres made it hard to print on as well as it had worked in my samples, I feel it reflects my chosen season perfectly. I'm really really happy with my bag I'm incredibly proud of what I have worked towards

Cutting my pattern pieces out

When I was cutting my pattern pieces out I had a issue, I cut one piece out incorrect, I didn't put the fold on the fold, I solved this by butting the piece in Half and sewing it together and pressing the Seam open. The seam of this fault is barely noticeable which I was really happy with as it doesn't effect my bag design at all.

Chosen samples for my bag

After sampling with with many different materials and colours the material I chose for my bag is calico I chose to use calico as it is a strong material that for a bag would be very practical, I chose to dye the calico using Red- MXG procian dye and for the leafs I decided to use a light brown - RR mixes with a little bit of black -SN-G pigment dye and for the veins I chose to print them with black -SN-G pigment dye. For the animal print I chose to also print it with black -SN-G pigment dye.

Sampling

After experimenting with many different materials with my leaf screen I experimented with my screen which had my animal design on it. I experimented with different materials such as white muslin, cream muslin, heavy viscose silk, habotai silk light, cotton, calico and Devore fabric. My Devore sample didn't work well at all the image didn't print through as well as I had hoped. For the other materials I used I use some as the raw material and dyed some using the red -MXG procian dye, for all the prints I used black- SN-G pigment dye. I felt some samples worked better then others. The samples that worked the best was the white muslin (which was dyed), heavy viscose silk, cotton and calico, these worked the best as the materials seemed to compliment the print the texture f the material and the depth of the fibers all worked incredibly well with my print making it sharp and clear. The samples of habotai silk light and cream muslin didn't work well with my print. The habotai silk light was extremely think and floaty, and when dyed the colour faded extreme amounts. The fabrics would work so much better as a lining instead of a main feature. I personally didn't like the cream muslin as the texture of it was incredibly rough and my print didn't look as sharp as it did on the other materials.

Primary research

To collect some primary research I visited the fleets in Barnsley and Dearne valley park it was a cold autumn morning and I feel I captured some amazing pictures which showed autumn beautifully, I captured a fantastic shot of some fungi which is a great inspiration for me, the pictures I have captured was a great inspiration for my work.

Norwich

On my way back from Norwich the sun started to set and the sky was looking beautiful so I decided to take some photos, as the sub was drying it started to make the passing trees look beautiful as like silhouettes and I felt it was a beautiful autumn sun set.