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Tejidos Kallawaya – Folclor Regional O Reflejos De Procesos De Etnicización, Eva Fischer
Tejidos Kallawaya – Folclor Regional O Reflejos De Procesos De Etnicización, Eva Fischer
IX Jornadas Internacionales de Textiles Precolombinos y Amerindianos / 9th International Conference on Pre-Columbian and Amerindian Textiles, Museo delle Culture, Milan, 2022.
En mi aporte analizaré dos tipos de figuras y sus contextos, las que muestran entre sí una estrecha relación y simultáneamente diferencias profundas: el diseño llamado corte grande o kurti, y las figuras denominadas curandero, Kallawaya. El primer diseño va bajo la rúbrica de los diseños “abstractos” y el segundo bajo aquella de los diseños figurativos. Antes de aparecer en los tejidos, ambos debían transformarse en figuras de memoria en el sentido de Assmann (2000). Los dos diseños y sus contextos, percibidos como reflejos de etapas específicas de procesos más largos y complejos, permiten explorar, por lo menos en parte, …
Between Yarn And Electrons: A Method For Designing Textural Expressions In Electromagnetic Smart Textiles, Erin Lewis
Between Yarn And Electrons: A Method For Designing Textural Expressions In Electromagnetic Smart Textiles, Erin Lewis
Nordes Conference Series
The design of smart textiles presents a discrepancy of scale where the designer works at the level of structural textile design while facets of the material express at scales beyond one’s senses. Without methods to narrow this gap, certain expressional domains of the textile are closed off from design possibilities. The aim of the research has been to design a method for observing, visualizing, and describing expressions of electromagnetism in textiles. Through a method of textile surface scanning, one can produce a visualization of its electromagnetic field. Woven textile samples observed through this method reveal a textural quality that exists …
Transformers: Versatile Apparel For A Sustainable World, Zihan Amy Peng
Transformers: Versatile Apparel For A Sustainable World, Zihan Amy Peng
Masters Theses
This collection and book were inspired by a TED talk called “I broke up with fast fashion and you should too” by founder of The UpCycle Project Gabriella Smith. After I heard this inspiring talk, I reflected a lot on my own habits of clothes shopping during different life stages, how I became a fan of fast fashion, and how Covid-19 has impacted the way I shop and dress. I soon dug further into the ugly truth about the fast fashion industry’s environmental impacts, how their marketing strategies lure the general public to consume more products, and potential solutions to …
Textile Architecture, Zoe Yates
Textile Architecture, Zoe Yates
Masters Theses
The escalating climate crisis has exposed many cracks in conventional building systems. Modern architectural processes contribute to climate change by consuming high levels of energy throughout the building cycle—from sourcing materials to construction to energy use once buildings are in use. Conventional architecture’s emphasis on heaviness and permanence makes these problems unavoidable. Light, temporary architecture is a solution to both the environmental impacts of the practice (the cause) and to the challenges of living in ever more impermanent situations (the effect). As climate change continues to manifest in rising global temperatures, sea level rise, drought, unpredictable weather, and natural disasters, …
Out Of Bounds, Luciana Iwamoto
Out Of Bounds, Luciana Iwamoto
Masters Theses
Humans have an inescapable desire for rationality, structure, and order. We seek efficiency and certainty in our individual and communal lives. We have been encouraged to believe that most things are under our control until something strikes us and brings to consciousness the limits of our knowledge. It’s usually nature’s wild power that overwhelms our faculty of reason and reminds us of our limits. Philosophers called this sensation of overwhelm in the face of nature the sublime experience. In modern cities, surrounded by skyscrapers, we are reminded of our own technological achievements, while nature feels disconnected and distant. Yet, if …
Building Narratives: Instilling Old Stories In New Spaces, Sharanya Aggarwal
Building Narratives: Instilling Old Stories In New Spaces, Sharanya Aggarwal
Masters Theses
Here in Gurugram, tall, uniform, cold, imposing buildings loom over a newly developed metropolis, futilely competing with each other to become remarkable landmarks of the near future. Here, I close my eyes and fondly remember the celebratory streets and inextinguishable, vibrant atmosphere of New Delhi, one of the oldest cities in the country, which I used to joyfully call my home. Opening my eyes, all I see when I look outside my window are either vast spans of bare land or vertical skyscrapers and construction sites. Memories of home, objects, places, and streets are my living archive of my past …
Dal And Rice, Anushka Divecha
Dal And Rice, Anushka Divecha
Masters Theses
I have always been a nostalgic person. I have boxes of old photographs, letters, birthday cards and objects from significant days in my life. I have confetti from different concerts, friendship bracelets and old diaries. While typically not represented by keepsakes, memories of food are some of my strongest. They encompass all five senses, which is perhaps why they are so powerful. Every time I smell a spice or taste something familiar, I am instantly transported to a certain place and time.
As a textile artist, I use materials, textures, imagery, and senses to evoke place and time. This year …
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement And Migration, Hammad Abid
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement And Migration, Hammad Abid
Masters Theses
“Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Migration,” the title of both my thesis work and thesis book, calls attention to displacement and forced migration as a disruption in the continuity of place, relationships, identity, memory, and time. Through a collection of textiles, I try to capture the psychological, social, and physical effects of forced migration and communicate the impact of political violence on identity and coexistence.
In this book, I position myself within the context of how the current Indian government is attempting to rewrite the nation’s history and distort India’s pluralistic story. I tell a personal narrative of displacement in harrowing …
Mais Fica : More For Me, Gabrielle Marie Ferreira
Mais Fica : More For Me, Gabrielle Marie Ferreira
Masters Theses
This book is as much a part of my thesis as the fabrics and patterns themselves, stitched together from moments and memories. You may take these stories with you, but those hidden moments between my words will always remain for me and me alone. No matter how many people take these stories with them, still mais fica.
Floating, Nina Shishkina
Floating, Nina Shishkina
Masters Theses
My writing is influenced by the concept of Montage. It has bits of readings, thoughts, memories. Everything is carefully picked and curated to inform the viewer of the ideas behind the work.
This book is aiming to explain the context of the time and space I was born and raised. The nineties in Russia were an extremely dynamic space. The flow of information, ideas, cultural events were enormous. Everything coexisted. the real democracy and freedom, as now it would be described. It was a dark time, full of hope and expectations.
Unfortunately for the reader, this text is not that …
Awe-Struck, Emily Robertson
Awe-Struck, Emily Robertson
Masters Theses
Awe-struck is an exploration at the intersection of embodied and situated cognition, sight, sense-making and nature with an additional layer of artistic interpretation and emotional response. Adapting elements of Terrapin Bright Green’s biophilic design principles, this work pushes past the well researched benefits of incorporating nature into a designed space, to uncover an individual’s personal connection to an environment. The connection is multi-faceted—layered with observations of space, color and location, filtered through a lense of physical, philosophical and psychological reactions and then translated into an individual personal history. With a specific focus on wild spaces, where humans have designed and …
Summer Peaches And Salt-Tinged Fog, Carolina Jiménez
Summer Peaches And Salt-Tinged Fog, Carolina Jiménez
Masters Theses
The pieces that I create are monuments of the mundane; they are both garments and--through their installation--a place as well. They are portraits of loved people, embodied through hand labor and industrial processes. In this project I destabilize the idea of a memory palace--an imagined rational space which holds memory--and replace it with an ever-expanding memory atmosphere. From a palace of marble and bronze to a fog of salt tinged color, a sky turning, like a cut plum, from orange to purple, music carried on the breeze.
I map individuals, qualities of light, flashes of color and material. Specific moments …
The Evolution Of Ornament, Charlotte Ngaio Fairless
The Evolution Of Ornament, Charlotte Ngaio Fairless
Masters Theses
The Evolution of Ornament is a visual exploration of Darwin’s theory of sexual selection, abstracted into three textile panels representing the allure of textural ornamentation. The fragmented shapes depicted are gathered together into asymmetrical layouts that reference dissection and bird plumage. The parallel themes of glamour in the natural world, and the pulsing vivacity of flora and fauna, emerge as a vehicle for the contemplation of the innate irrationality of desire. The viewer is seduced through neon color palettes, tactile materiality, and considered placement of specifically amorphous shapes. They are intended to simulate in the viewer the reaction of a …
Haptic Wonder : The Sensation Of Exquisite Craft, Anjuli Berstein
Haptic Wonder : The Sensation Of Exquisite Craft, Anjuli Berstein
Masters Theses
I reinterpret traditional woven techniques to create permeable handcrafted screens, by using archival research of historical passementerie and gauze structures. Conceptually, these textiles are an exploration of how wonder can be reached through exquisite craft, a result of valuable raw materials combined with fine hand manipulation. I attempt to distinguish a kind of wonder that exists as a tactile sensation based on haptic sight of minutia, versus the sublime as an experience of optical sight of distant objects.
Capes Make The Man, Khalid Mezaina
Capes Make The Man, Khalid Mezaina
Masters Theses
‘Capes Make The Man’ is a project that provided me with the opportunity to grow as a designer and an artist. Over the last two years at RISD, I’ve frequently asked myself questions about my place and role as a man in the United Arab Emirates, and what awaits when I move back after graduating. Using personal narratives and cultural symbols from home, I bring to life the archetypes I carry as a mature masculine – my king, warrior, magician, lover and dancer. The end result is a series of bold, wearable capes, resembling stage costumes worn by pop stars …
Cosmic Whatever, Cement Gardens, Luminous Shade, Winifred Vaughan
Cosmic Whatever, Cement Gardens, Luminous Shade, Winifred Vaughan
Masters Theses
My work is an assemblage of disciplines, reductive processes, and accumulated materials interpreted with a painterly quality. Slipping away faster than we can grasp, the unrelenting forces of time propel us forward. Memory fragments our chronologies, transforming our existence into a collaged fabric. Layered transparencies allow the three chapters of this thesis, Cosmic Whatever, Cement Gardens and Luminous Shade, to bleed into each other turning them into composed cycles. These unlikely combinations permit freedom to experience a narrative that is both vast and intimate.
In The Marketplace, Anina Major
In The Marketplace, Anina Major
Masters Theses
The decision to voluntarily establish a home contrary to the location in which I was born and raised (The Bahamas) motivates me to investigate the relationship between self and place. To further explore my own migration and the emotional complexities that surface, with a desire to fabricate terms of cultural integrity and its defining influence. To express poetically the kindred ideals that resonate from home and intertwine those values to cultivate moments of reflection and acceptance. To promote encounters between past, present and future by weaving the memories of my own background and experiences, consequently unveiling a rich culture composed …
How To Become Ocean?, Elaina Runge
How To Become Ocean?, Elaina Runge
Masters Theses
A shifting viewpoint transforms into multiple perspectives to explore surface and depth.
By compressing time into an instant, or expanding a moment out in infinite directions, patterns reveal and obscure themselves.
A process that is both rational and intuitive emerges through the use of different systems to approach the unknown.
The ocean operates as a metaphor. The beyond guides the search of one who is tethered to the shore.
Plastic, linen, silk, elastic, glass, cellulose, protein: fold, curve, bend, distort, resist to create forms that are neither unfamiliar nor named.
Blue, blue-grey, blue-green, blue violet, azure, cobalt, sapphire, lapis lazuli, …
Deceptive Fragility : Characteristics And Fabrication Methods Of Extra Thick Weft-Knitted Spacer Fabrics, Anastasia Onegina
Deceptive Fragility : Characteristics And Fabrication Methods Of Extra Thick Weft-Knitted Spacer Fabrics, Anastasia Onegina
Masters Theses
This thesis investigates technical and performance capabilities of extra thick flat-knitted 3D spacer fabrics. Several combinations of knitted structures and fibers are suggested for thermal and impact protection, general insulation, architecture and construction. Methods of constructing three- to seven-layer spacer fabrics up to nine inches thick are explained.
The Untold Tale, Yan Zeng
The Untold Tale, Yan Zeng
Masters Theses
Inspired by Manchurian heirlooms and family traditions, I create intricate textiles as narratives that viewers can empathize with, vehicles for expressing my own memories and cultural background. I have told many stories through my textiles in the past, but my thesis tells a very special one: it is a story that I have been afraid to make known for nearly 20 years, a dark fairy tale based on my childhood traumas and experiences; it is the story of a girl who was lost in a deep forest and struggled to find a way out. My thesis collection is composed of …
I Was There : Irreversible View, Asma Belhamar
I Was There : Irreversible View, Asma Belhamar
Masters Theses
Living in a “time lapse” is what I could say about my experience of belonging to a place like the United Arab Emirates. The compression of time and expansion of space is intensely surreal. This idea leads my process to a series of investigations about the geological and cultural tectonics of the space, where I explore the conflicts between natural landscape and architecture. The urban surroundings are precarious: even monumental and unrelenting structures can change in a matter of days. This urban phenomena is commonly known as “mega structures” where nothing is impossible to build; buildings can be finished in …
I Trace The Fold : Fluidity And Flux In The Terrain Vague, Alicia Oas
I Trace The Fold : Fluidity And Flux In The Terrain Vague, Alicia Oas
Masters Theses
The terrain vague is the interstitial fabric of city life. It is the space between and around the inhabited city – abandoned urban space that constantly shifts in form and function. The terrain vague is found in empty buildings, former factories, parking lots, along the train tracks, and in unclaimed alleyways. In these still and quiet places, a fragmented narrative emerges from the pattern of urban color, texture, and light.
I record these patterns in the structure of the textile. Warp and weft interweave in layers of experience. The curtain captures both the substance of our collective memory and the …
Li Remembered, Meredith (Yue) Du
Li Remembered, Meredith (Yue) Du
Masters Theses
This thesis work arose from my interest and concern in the ongoing transformation happening in China socially, culturally, and environmentally. As a child of hydro engineers, I grew up on the construction site of Lishui Hydro project. In my experience, the hydroelectric plant was a poetic place, a huge geometric structure surrounded by beautiful water and views of mountains. In my research, I found that many people argue against hydro projects, especially Three Gorges Dam, and the main focus of their objections has to do with demolition and the displacement of people from their homes. Through publications, documentary films, and …
Facilitating Teamwork In The Design Process: Repertory Grid As An Approach To Exploratory Inquiry, Anne Louise Bang, Kirsten Nissen
Facilitating Teamwork In The Design Process: Repertory Grid As An Approach To Exploratory Inquiry, Anne Louise Bang, Kirsten Nissen
Nordes Conference Series
By approaching the Repertory Grid as an exploratory design game and drawing on insight in diagrammatic reasoning we argue that this approach is useful in supporting team work in the design process. In this article we draw on two courses inviting textile design students to contribute to the development of the Repertory Grid – originated in psychology as a one-to-one interview technique – into a tool for articulation and dialogue. Especially the concept of eliciting bipolar constructs using the triadic difference – asking how two elements are alike but different from a third one – proves to support in-depth investigations, …
Fabrics In Function: Emotional Utility Values, Anne Louise Bang
Fabrics In Function: Emotional Utility Values, Anne Louise Bang
Nordes Conference Series
In recent years the challenges for the textile industry has changed because of technological development and outsourcing. The consequence is an increased focus on innovation in the textile trade. This article describes the objectives in a three year research project. In order to contribute to the establishment of an initial framework for the project it has a focus on how to explore costumers and users emotional experiences with fabrics. The three year research project is based on experimental design research and the textile designer’s competences and knowledge. During the research project exploring approaches will be developed and carried out with …
Risd Press September 27, 1974, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
Risd Press September 27, 1974, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives
All Student Newspapers
RISD press was a student newspaper published weekly in the early 1970s, a self-described attempt at consolidating all the information outlets of the school, including the previous student newspaper, Montage. The issue of September 27, 1974 had an article about the RISD Building Study report that took place in the summer. Also the RISD student board meeting for the activities budget outline was in this issue. Information about student health services, ads, classifieds, events listed for RISD students were mentioned.
Hana Shishū (花詩集) | Flower Poetry Collection, Kawarazaki Kōdō, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Hana Shishū (花詩集) | Flower Poetry Collection, Kawarazaki Kōdō, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Pattern, Ornament, and Decoration
Classical patterns for dyeing. Volumes : color illustrations ; 31 cm. Folding books, Acordion style binding.
CONTENTS: 1-3. Mon'yō no maki -- 4. Hamon no maki -- 5. Mizu no maki -- 6. Unka no maki -- 7. Shikishi no maki
Library has no. 5 only. Gift of the Estate of Sol P. Kaufman. Volume is an accordion style fold, illustrated endpapers on the front board. Each page spread contains 6 or more stenciled blocks of patterns designs. Volume number from applied strip on front cover, hand calligraphed in Japanese.
Inspirations : Twenty-Four Plates, With 128 Compositions, André Durenceau, Hans Carl Perleberg, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Inspirations : Twenty-Four Plates, With 128 Compositions, André Durenceau, Hans Carl Perleberg, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Pochoir
[5] p., 24 leaves of col. plates. In portfolio. "Printed by Birnbaum-Jackson Co., color printers, Philadelphia, PA."--p. [1] Gift of Garabed der Hohannesian.
Floréal : Dessins & Coloris Nouveaux, Émile-Allain Séguy, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Floréal : Dessins & Coloris Nouveaux, Émile-Allain Séguy, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Pochoir
[4] pages, 20 leaves of plates (in portfolio) : all color illustrations ; 53 cm.
Loose plates in publisher's portfolio. Striped cloth fabric on spine and corners of portfolio. Colophon printed in red.
Pochoir color plates of ornamental floral patterns. A prolific artist whose career covered both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, Séguy was one of the foremost French designers of the early 20th century. He drew his inspiration primarily from nature, producing ornamental patterns derived from flowers, foliage, minerals, insects and animals.
Suggestions Pour Étoffes Et Tapis : 60 Motifs En Couleur, Émile-Allain Séguy, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Suggestions Pour Étoffes Et Tapis : 60 Motifs En Couleur, Émile-Allain Séguy, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Pochoir
[2] pages, 20 leaves of color plates ; 47 cm.
In portfolio. Pochoir prints.
Gift of Louisa D. Sharpe Metcalf.