Essay On Textile

DESIGN EXPLORATION IN TEXTILES

A textile or cloth is a woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibers often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibers of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands. Textiles are formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or pressing fibers together. Textiles are the synonym of cloth and fabric. The word 'textile' is from Latin, from the adjective textilis, meaning 'woven'.

In the first project of “DESIGN EXPLORATION AND TEXTILES”, we were had to compose fifty (50) textures by using variety of material like tie and dye, emboss paint, fabric paint, sand texture, salt and sugar texture, ink sprinkling, collage, block printing, paper crumpling, egg shells texture, 3 types of weaving

Make a thin background with sponge and paint. It should be wet. Take a tissue and roll it roughly and then stamp it on the paper it will soak paint from that part and leave its impression on the sheet. Its texture is smooth, rhythm is progressive. Its balance is a-symmetrical. Pattern of this texture is irregular and it had two dimensional shapes.

• TEXTURE#15

This is a salt texture with potato stamping. It is made by rubbing a sponge of wet thin paint on the sheet and sprinkle salt on it. Salt will soak the paint and leave its impression on the sheet, let it dry. When the sheet will be dry, rub of the salt from sheet, take a potato cut like a ladybird shape, stamp it with acrylic paint. Shape is 2 dimensional. Focal point is ladybirds. Texture is rough and hard. Pattern is irregular, balance is a-symmetrical and its rhythm is alternate.

• TEXTURE#16

Take a table mate, paint it thickly and stamp the mate on the sheet in a regular motion. It will leave its print on the paper. Focal point is the print. Lines are thick, thin, light and dark. Space is positive. Balance is symmetrical and rhythm is regular.

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