Waist coast front

This is my final piece from the tattoo brief that I was given. This shows how the waist coat fits on a body and what it would look like if worn by someone.

Waist coat detail

This picture shows that I have used the techniques of quilting, lino print, free stitch and beading. It also shows what effect the techniques have and how well the work together.

Final waist coat fashion illustration

After drawing lots of very different designs I finally decided which techniques I was going to use and how I was going to us them.

Waist coat fashion illustration

This is some of my first fashion illustrations when I was thinking about what techniques and processes I wanted to use on my waist coat. I feel that I had an idea of what I was going to do.

Wodded dyed silk with lino print and free stitch embroidery

This is one of the best samples to show using lots of different types of techniques. First I dyed the piece of silk fabric and left to dry before lino printing. Once I had lino printed the fabric I pinned the wodding to the fabric and started free stitching around the flowers and in the middle. This gives the flowers a 3D effect.

Screen print on Shbori fabric

Before I could do anything with this sample I had to design the pattern. Once I had chosen which design I was going to screen print onto the Shabori fabric, I folded a piece of Shabori fabric and dyed it. I then transferred the design onto a screen. Once the Shabori fabric was dry I could then screen print the design on to the dyed fabric.

Tie dye and layered lino print

This is my best example of using different techniques together at the same time and on the same sample. I first tie dyed the silk fabric to makes sections. I then mixed the dyes I needed and then started printing onto the fabric and layered them.