textile - *akka design*

21 mars 2010

UFO attack #1: the cushion

After I moved into the new apartment I planned a massive attack to the UFOs (UnFinished Objects :-) I have around. The easiest one (because it was almost finished) was this crochet cushion I started in Ireland last year. The project was for a crochet-only...

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Tags: textile, interior design, craft, accessories, handmade, crochet

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7 mars 2010

Too late for wool?

These days you can feel the spring is round the corner, so it seemed a better idea to use cotton for my next weaving project. What looks like navy blue in the picture is actually a nice purple colour in reality, but I couldn't get it right with my camera....

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Tags: design, textile, creativity, craft, weaving, yarn, scarf

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4 mars 2010

Self portrait in my school assignment

It doesn't happen very often that you can wear your school assignments. I suppose this is one of the privileges of studying textiles. The project was about a colour: I chose pink. It was about making something to represent it: I chose crocheting a shawl....

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Tags: textile, projects, creativity, fashion, crochet

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27 février 2010

Batik and me

This is a batik piece I made on silk. I've been learning this technique in the Textile Dyeing workshop at school. I'd like to show a quick photo sequence of the process as I learned it: 1. Preparing the wax by melting it together with paraffin and filtering....

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Tags: textile, projects, craft, fabric, batik

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25 février 2010

Batik lamps

A few of my experiments in batik , a textile decorating technique. The lamp covers are cut and sewn to fit an Ikea lamp . I made three different ones, so I can change the look of the lamp.

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Tags: textile, projects, interior design, craft, furniture, batik

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5 décembre 2009

Embroidery inspiration: white

Some pictures from one of the most inspirational book I've seen lately, Broderies .

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Tags: textile, books, embroidery, inspiration

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25 novembre 2009

Thai Textiles

I went to visit an exhibition about Thai Textiles in Casa Asia , a fantastic Asian cultural centre in Barcelona. Apart from organizing events and courses, they have a specialised library and media archive and three floors dedicated to exhibitions, all...

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Tags: textile, exhibitions, asia, oriental

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18 novembre 2009

Dionne Swift, textile artist

(picture from http://www.craftmaker.co.uk/dionneswift/) My favorite artist exhibition at the Knitting and Stitching Show in Dublin was the one by Dionne Swift . The first picture is one of her devore works on velvet. She also sells kits to experiment...

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Tags: print, textile, artists, exhibitions

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12 novembre 2009

A fibre loot

Last week I visited the Knitting and Stitching Show at RDS in Dublin. I dedicated a day and a half to the show, the first day to see the exhibitions and browse the stalls and the second day to buy things. I thought it was a good way to avoid rushing through...

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Tags: textile, shopping, exhibitions, craft, dublin, fibre

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11 octobre 2009

Etsy favourites: olive green

1. Wool Wrapped Bangles by mysticfibers ; 2. Meadowgrass under Floodwater scarf by easternsky ; 3. Green Meadow Pouch by oktak ; 4. Olive Green Crocheted Earrings by FebystanDesigns .

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Tags: textile, shopping, craft, accessories, etsy, internet, textile jewellery

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30 septembre 2009

Ok, let's do something now...

I am new to Barcelona so I don't know if it is just this time of the year or here the festivals, celebrations and holidays are really non stop. Since I came one month ago I've been enjoying lots of outdoor events, the latest of them due to Barcelona's...

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Tags: cities, textile, weaving

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15 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #4: Collective print

Details of a collective work from latest screenprinting workshop at Liz Nilsson 's studio, made by the people that took part in the workshop: Marie, Cristina, Sinead, Cliona, Cecile and me.

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Tags: print, textile, screenprinting, workshop, fabric

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14 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #3: A work in progress

As I mentioned in this post , in the latest screenprinting workshop at Liz Nilsson 's I had very ambitious project in mind, and this was the printing of a square tablecloth (160x160 cm) with a border of my own design (see planned layout in the last picture...

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Tags: print, design, textile, screenprinting, pattern, fabric, origami

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11 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #2: Making holes

Some images of effects obtained with newspaper and a paper punch during the latest screenprinting workshop at Liz Nilsson 's studio.

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Tags: print, design, paper, textile, screenprinting, workshop

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10 juin 2009

Screenprinting weekend #1: the Japanese paper

You might wonder what I'm doing in the pictures above, and if you had asked me on the spot I would had told you 'I don't know!'I was again at Liz Nilsson 's studio for another wonderful 2-day screenprinting workshop and the stencil I have prepared for...

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Tags: print, design, paper, textile, screenprinting, workshop, japanese

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