DIgital Stitch – Edaein Samuels

Book Making with printed imagery

An idea for a flag book using images of my textile pieces. I created some of these images on word document and Microsoft Publisher to collage them. This was a way of thinking about the placement of my bubbles and visualizing the finished piece.

Final piece coming together.

Fittings

Browsing the Ikea Catalog

Pole fitting: I need curtain rail of sorts or a rod from which to hang some strips of shiny white viscose cloth from. This would be part of the presentation of the piece I am currently calling ‘Bubble Trouble?’ for the 2nd year Ba Artist/Designer:Maker end of year exhibition.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/tools-fittings-curtain-rails/curtain-rods-rails/r%C3%A4cka-curtain-rod-combination-white-spr-59929243

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/tools-fittings-curtain-rails/curtain-rods-rails/vidga-draw-rod-white-art-00299118/ draw rod

Shelves for book

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/storage-furniture/wall-shelves/lack-wall-shelf-white-art-50282177/ ‘Lack’ concealed wall fitting 30x26x5cm 3kg max., cost: 5 pounds. This one would probably be best for my exhibition if I am to exhibit a project book or a collaged lampshade alongside my piece.

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/storage-furniture/wall-shelves/lack-wall-shelf-white-art-50282177/

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/storage-furniture/wall-shelves/lack-wall-shelf-white-art-50282177/ 19cm depth

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/storage-furniture/wall-shelves/ekby-st%C3%B6dis-bracket-white-art-80142067/ bracket suitable for 19cm by 79 cm shelf – too long and narrow

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/storage-furniture/wall-shelves/ekby-laiva-shelf-birch-effect-art-50178703/ 24 by 59cm 2.90 + brackets 2(.50) =3.90

Today’s Progress

Close up. Digital Embroidery on black cotton organdi

Close up.Digital Embroidery on black cotton organdi

Piece in progress. Digital Embroidery on black cotton organdi

These are details of my smaller organdi screen which will be part of a trio of wall-mounted, hinged screens that viewers will be invited to move and engage with.

I have also developed better registration techniques over the last few weeks when positioning the embroidery hoop to get it to stitch in the desired spot.

I discovered today that it is possible to re-use the backing paper once it has been torn away from a completed embroidered ‘bubble’. Embroidering a new bubble using this backing paper means I do not have to cut away the site of the ‘bubble each time. It’s just a matter of marking out where the embroidery hoop was positioned on the piece before releasing it so it can be centred on the hoop again for the next piece.

Scanner Collages.

These are the result some collaging of some scans of my heat transfer prints and some black synthetic mesh material which cut into circles as part of my sampling for a piece I am currently referring to as ‘Bubble Trouble?’. I hope to compile these into books eventually. I have been exploring the settings on the printer in college and it is possible to build a book in the copy settings. I’very taken note of the model number and will look up instructions on how to compile a book with photocopies to be printed as one whole thing.

There scans didn’t work out how I wanted them to. I was trying to scan more than one image into a page but it doesn’t seem to do that when you are sending the image to yourself from the printer. It would seem it only puts more than one image on the page with the ‘build job’ selection while photcopying. These zoomed in too much and scanned with the wrong originals orientation

Sketching with photos/generating images

This is just a train of thought really.

I like the way the splotches of grease show through with the light and the way the plastic mesh touches under the paper.

I have ideas for attaching it to a lampshade frame that I found in Splott Market on Saturday. Layering grease spattered paper and photocopies with translucent cloth cut outs, I would collage other past imagery with it such as my scans of my heat transfer prints. I might put less light-permeable materials behind some of the imagery to get a nice contrast.

Light wouldn’t lend to some of the digital prints I have in mind.

Like with my swinging organdi screens I would like the viewer to interact with this piece too. It would be like a carousel.