Details Project: Day Four and Five and Six

On Friday I went through all of my research and chose two images that I felt were the most inspiring for colours. Then I went through the colour swatches that I got and chose colours that matched. I felt this was important to do because colour was often very important in folk clothing, different colours had different meanings and were worn for different occasions. I want to do quite colourful collection, so before I started to design I felt that it was important to think about different colour combinations and how they would work in different proportions.

On Saturday I went fabric shopping and because the notes I'd made after reading that book and the colour swatches  I knew exactly what fabrics and colours I was looking for. I wasn't able to get everything I was looking for but I did find a good variety of fabrics such as wool,silk, fur and tweeds. Because I wasn't sure what I would be designing yet it was hard to choose fabrics so I focused on more on getting the right colours.

It was useful to go fabric shopping at this point in the project partly because I won't have time to go next week but also I can start more proper design develop with the types of fabrics that I can use in mind.

On Sunday I went through all of the fabric swatches and cut about three or four squares of each. Then I grouped them thinking about how the different colours and types of fabrics could possibly work together. I found this useful because it meant before I started to design I was thinking about what the clothing would be made out of, which is very important because I need to know which fabrics work well together so I can start to design. I knew that I wanted the colours and fabrics to clash a little so it was important to put them directly next to each other in a group so I could start to imagine how my design could look.