Since my previous post I have started to layer up and smock the printed and laser cut shirt front and backs. These samples are to test out the various methods I could use when I start to create my kilt smock skirts. I will also be using the smocking sample ideas when I make my reversible waistcoats.
Now I have confined the techniques and I am using to print, lasercutting and and smocking with some embroidery I need to try out this techniques in as many different ways as possible. These samples will hopefully give me my ideas for my final product and show. For these prints and lasercut samples I took inspiration from Navajo textiles.
Once I had layered the prints and laser cut sections I stared to smock them again creating a kilt like skirt. I want to continue with this idea and hopefully develop it more so that it can be used from my final product for the show. After finishing this skirt I want to go back to making lots of smaller samples including many different techniques.
I want to experiment with laser cutting into the printed fabric and layering them, eventually to smock and put together in the form of a kilt like the example in my older post. I chose two patterns that I had printed and put them into Illustrator to create a pattern that could be laser cut. These patterns are slightly to complicated for the laser cutting to be completely successful my next laser cut patterns will be simpler.
