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3. Circular Open Source Fashion

OUR INSPIRATION

PAINTING

My favorite painting in the 15 paintings is this one. I really like this one.

The owner puts her fat ginger cat into famous paintings, and the result is hilarious (15 pictures). Cats are very beautiful to look at; their poses are so elegant that it looks as if they were the subjects of great masters' paintings. One cat in Russia takes this to another level by actually being the subject of many famous paintings done by the greatest artists of all time. The beautiful, plump, ginger tabby with an awesome name, Zarathustra, sneaks comfortably into paintings and fits right in. "If I fit, I sit or lay, in whatever the artist portrays," said he.

LINK TO THE 15 PAINTINGS

Another INSPARATION

I got an invitation from Charlotte Sehmisch. modular structures using felt and soft materials.

MY CATS

In my life, I have two cats:

  • one in my home for my little brother.
  • The other one is in my art studio.

STREET CAT

We call him Ghaim; that name means it's like a cloudy thing. This one comes to me when I open the window of my studio. He is come and go inside me suddenly.

ONE IN HOME

This one we call Abu-Hussam. She is the best cat we have ever had.

My inspiration is from my cat. When she is around you, she makes connections between the person who has it and the cat; it's so cute and lovely, and she makes a relationship between the person who loves it and herself.


MANUAL TRY

I made my little dinosaur from the abstract organic shapes using scissors and felt to create connections. I tried to understand the female and male connections using soft materials, the dimensions, and the logic behind

ZERO WASTE

FUSION

  • I use Fusion 360 to draw the "zero waste shapes."

  • I use the lines to draw half of a closed shape.

  • After that, I mirrored into the final module.
  • I created the connections between females and males inside the shape.
  • Then I duplicated the shape into a rectangular pattern to make many cats.
  • Then I repeated the process and mirrored the pattern again.
  • The last thing I did was export it as a DXF file to print it with the laser machine.


DESIGN TWO-CAT JACKET

I made my sketch on fusion 360

I wanted to create a jacket from the leftover fabric. I was using the cat as inspiration for the shape of the joints and the top part of the jacket.


I redesigned the joints with the shape of the cat to be used as connections to join different parts of the jacket—female-male connections.

Here is the detail of the male part.

I use the tools in the fusion 360:

The spline line (spline point fit) The mirror command The rectangular pattern for duplicating the cat joints

Nesting with Rhino

I use Rhino to create another version of the jacket of my design and to nest the design for the laser cutting by adding some holes (circles).

LASER CUT

These are the settings for the felt in the laser-cut computer I used this week.




This is the final result of the modular pieces printed on black FELT, In many ways together 2d or 3d thanks to the multiple slots for interlocking in the design.

Download the files from here

CAT JACKET

I used laser cut to cut the 2D DESIGN of the jacket

First I tried on a piece of cotton fabric to check if the size was ok for the joints and then I lasercut all the design

I used Rhino to select RED color RGB and line thickness



JACKET

I put the DXF file on the computer, and then I print it on a leftover cotton fabric with this size of 600 * 1000 mm.


Then I went to my studio to connect it together.



Some of the joints of the cats.



RESULTS WITH FABRIC

COTTON


I tried with two different types of material, and I think it's not the best for this test.

The first one I use is an old fabric. I have it in an off-white color. Truly, it's not bad; it's a mixture of cotton and elastic.



VISCOSE

The other one is more bad than the first one; the smell is so bad, and the connections don't stay together because it's more elastic than the first one.



You can download this file from oscircularfashion