In my previous blog I had stated that I wanted to experiment with a series of different textiles under the microscope, however I didn’t want to simply have the basic textures/fabrics of everyday clothing. I wanted to find a mixture of different kinds of fabrics in order to gain more of an idea as to what I want my final pieces to look like.
I managed to get ahold of a multitude of different textiles which caught my interest – I had a variety of colours and textures, I had some thinner materials as well as thicker, tougher materials which I knew would be great for experimentations.
There were two pieces of a mesh-like fabric which was incredibly fine and quite see through which I was immediately drawn to as it wasn’t your basic material from a t-shirt or a jacket. The fabric proved to be quite interesting as it had the criss-cross pattern which I thought was pretty nice.
At first I attempted to take photos of these fabrics by themselves against the table surface however, it made the image a bit too dark therefore I used another one of the materials – a bright, white fabric which worked well with the brightly coloured mesh.
I found yet another loose fabric which had a similar look to the mesh ones, however the blue material was a thicker, shimmery material. At first I thought this material was going to be somewhat difficult as the light already added the effect I had issues with previously, however it seemed to come out quite successfully.
These two materials varied the most – the image on the left was a piece of black leather-ish material whereas the image on the right was from a thick, embroided piece of material.
The first image is from a piece of what looked like black denim which was quite thick compared to the other material – stuffing from inside a stuffed animal.
For the second image I had to take several shots as I couldn’t place it directly under the microscope as I couldn’t focus the lens properly, so I had to somewhat hold the microscope above the material whilst trying to take the image. Nevertheless, I am pleased with how these came out.
In my opinion they were more successful than my previous attempt since I now knew what had to be done.
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