3X3

As part of their end of semester assessment second year Textile Innovations students recently mounted an exhibition of their work called ‘3x3’ in Victoria Building’s own gallery space – PR1 Gallery.

The project asked students to think about the consequence of the heritage and mechanics of the loom and its warp of threads, and that many textiles are woven and finished in a continuous length; stored in rolls to be cut up to make finished products. Clothing and curtain fabrics, floor and wall coverings are all ordered and sold by the linear or square metre. This project asked students to acknowledge this through the design and production of their own inter-related collection of three, three metre textile lengths, some of which you can see in the accompanying images.

Each student was given two words, picked at random, that described material qualities with relevance to textiles. They then interpreted their combination of words in their own way to develop a visual and tactile theme that could support personal design work for the semester.

They were are asked to consider the full dimensions and complexity of textile qualities: handle, touch, drape, volume, opacity, weight, embellishment, decoration, translucency etc and particularly the concepts of scale, decorative sequence and rhythm inherent in designing for ‘length’.

For further information about BA Hons Textile Innovations, please contact the Department of Design office. 01772 893372 or visit
www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/destech/design/courses/ba-textiles.html