Swimsuit and cover garments

My Prints

Embroidered circles in different colours.

As I was trying to come up with a print design I liked the idea of taking an illustration of a emboridered circle and creating a print.  Here is what I have come up with.

To tie in with my clashing of prints I have also design an Ikat print.

I am going to mix these prints together throughout my swimsuit collection.
My inspiration for my designs has come from these prints.

Mirror, emboridery and seams

Research into different embellishment techniques. I think mirror work on lyrca might not be the most practial. So it might be nice to replicate it in the form of a print perhaps silver foil to represent the mirror.

I also love tassels, poms poms, embroidery. So lovely! Very craft base. So time consuming to do which I think also adds to the beauty.

Sourced from "Needlework School".

Textiles from India

Gold motif on red.

Paisley design

Sari with gold thread. Paisley motif.

Emboridery and mirror work.

(please turn head sideways!) Indian embroidered animals.

Embroidery and mirror work.

Please turn head sideways. Front design.

1980's Print

Great use of colour.  This print feels quite floral even though it's just a punch of blobs.

 

 This print has a batik feel to the design with the negative space around the zig zag stripe.

These images are slightly blurry they were taken by me from a book.
Marnie Fogg "1980s fashion print"

Print Inspiration

Apart of this assignment is to design a print.  It is not required to be used at the end for our garment but we must show that we can design one.

For my research I have looked into different prints.  Indian prints, sarees.  I have looked at what elements make up Indian prints/textiles.

One big part of Indian dress is colour and texture. Primary colours of royal blue, fushia, orange gold and green.  are the major colours used.

Textures are made up of a few different things; there is emboridery, mirror work, rice tie dying and quilting.

A Fashion label which uses colour and print so beautiful through  their collections is Emillo Pucci.
I am such a big fan. I would love to be able to design prints that are so signature like Pucci prints are.
I have sourced a few images of print I like to use as inspiration.

Pucci Paisley.

I love this print it feel very modern. Fireworks maybe?

Image were source from the book "Pucci"

Macrame & Weaving

http://enderbynest.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/macrame-neck-piece.html

Macrame
Was big in fashion back in the 70's / 80's. It can can used to design platted belts bags, pot plant holders wall hanging and trim details on just about anything.

When you look for books on Macrame most of them are in black and white and printed in the mid 1970's.

Once such book I found at the university Library was a book by Ann Stearns "Macrame" Published by Arco Publishing Company, Inc. NY. It showed some great Ideas on Macrame use and some step by step instructions to do some basic knotting.

Above is a contemporary use of Macrame to create a neck piece.

I'm looking into to using Macrame as an embelishment/ trimming on my swimsuit/ rashie designs. A possible trim around the cuffs. Possibly threaded with gold beads and gold cord interwhined with black.

http://knitting-about.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/macrame-2012.html

I like diamond design in this hand bag.

http://italian-needlework.blogspot.com.au/2010_12_01_archive.html

Love the use of colour in this Macrame handle design.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20776/20776-h/chapter_11.html

http://www.redbubble.com/people/affectmachine/works/1428490-free-form-cavandoli-macrame-lamp