Thursday, 17 October 2013

HOMEWORK: Fabric Distressing/Aging

For our Textiles in Art homework we were instructed to go and try out different methods in order to decay/distress/age five different pieces of fabric. I found this quite fun but a lot more difficult than I expected. Material is a lot tougher than I imagined. However I did enjoy some of the results and have been inspired for future projects. The bleach and denim made me consider the idea of bleaching words or patterns into fabric and I liked the pretty candle wax effect on the netted fabric, even though it doesn't appear to resemble decay or age.
Below are photos of the results.
Cotton: Scratched and torn with stanley knife.

Denim: Soaked in bleach for about half n hour.
 

Leather: Rubbed with cheese grater.
 


Netted Fabric: Candle was spilt and dripped over the fabric.

                               Satin: Burnt in sections by hovering over flame on candle.

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