Earlier Work of Laura Kent Textiles

Laura Kent | Level Four and Five Textiles in Practice | Manchester School of Art

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Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Turning My Photographs into Fabrics



Thinking about past discussions that I have had with Fiona about weights and textures of fabrics, I began to experiment with different qualities of materials to print my photographs on to. Using heavy weight cotton, silks and acetate, it was interesting to see how the quality of the imagery was translated as a design. Different weights meant the vibrancy of colours altered, dependant on it's surface. The acetate when held again different backgrounds would produce an array of new perspectives for the photographs - similar to the principals of using filters. I am going to be using these photographs in our exhibition as examples to be used alongside the filter workshop.