Sophie Tattersall

This pattern  is in the Print and pattern book, I liked the style of line drawings of mixed motifs of flowers and leaves, but they are drawn in a completely different way and some of the flower motifs that are made up in parts.

 This is my own design using white gel pen on gold, textured paper. I created flowers that were made up in parts. I think the drawing flows and could be turned into a wallpaper design. 

I then made this design into a screen print. The colours I tried turned this design into bright fabrics. The experiment on the right didnt work out the way I wanted. I screen printed this design in pink pigment to start with. Then I screen printed my other screen print using gold foil. After I had the pink pigment and gold foil over the top, I tried to print selected areas of this design bigger and to flock them. Unfortunately, The flock stuck to parts where the foil had gone because the texi-flock paste really does pick up anything, even a second time. So this left squares of flock rather than just the shapes. Then the paper also stuck to the text-flock and although I tried washing it off, the foil was ruined. This helped me understand how to layer flock and foils though and to consider how the texi-flock will react. 

 

This is a historical example of batik design. I think it relates to the drawing I did and inspired me to think about the space inbetween larger motifs, like in this there are tiny branches in the spaces which draws attention to the main motifs. 

This wallpaper design is from Wallpaperdirect.com and is by The Art of Wallpaper. It uses delicate motifs is small scale and also some a little larger. The colours gold and red really create a Eastern feel to a room. I think my design stood out in red in screen print. 

This is another final sample. I took inspiration from using red and gold from the wallpaper above. This was created by using the original red screen print at the back. Then this gold leaf fabric was given to me that was brought back from India and was meant to be a place mat. The middle of the fabric was more see-through than the outside which allowed the red screen print to be brought through when I needlebonded it. So some of the red print came through the middle but not around the edges so I continues the pattern by freemachine embroidery using different colours to select parts of then pattern to continue. I also cut parts of the leaves out and did some patterns inside them with openwork on the sewing machine. I then picked out little parts to add hand embroidery and beads onto. 

For all my final samples, I have screen printed my own header cards.