Eunice Esomonu - Week 6: Textile as Scaffold

Eunice Esomonu - Fabricademy 2018-2019

Textile as Scaffold

For week 6, the class focuses on techniques and applicaitons of technicalt extiles in the industry.

I want to be able to use textile and various materials to manipulate fabrics to create interesting results.

I used what I learned from last weeks class in exploring techniques and application to develop sugar crystallization prototypes and textile + wood composites.

Research

I researched recipes of crystallization techniques and because I have a lot of sugar in my house. I decided that sugar crystallization was the best and most convenient way for me to create crystals in my house.

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Sugar Crystallization Example

With wood textiles, I was inspired by Eliza Strozysk wooden-textile peice and I wanted to create something that was interesting and flexible like that. I used 3mm plywood and various materials to create wood + textile prototypes with triangle shapes.

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Eliza Strozysk work

Sugar Crystallization

Materials

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Sugar Crystals Materials
  • 2 cups of water - for each solution
  • 6 cups of sugar(Brown Sugar and Domino Sugar) - for each solution
  • Crochet/Knitting needle
  • Glass jars/beakers
  • Spoon
  • Sauce Pot
  • String, Yarn, Rope

Procedures

  1. Crochet a yarn design.
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    Crochet Rope
  2. Boil water in the sauce pot.
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    Boiling Water
  3. Put sick cups of sugar into the sauce pot and stir until it feels soupy and saturated.
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    Sugar in Water
  4. When the solution is saturated put it in a beaker or glass jar.
  5. Tie yarn design onto a spoon and dipped it into the sugar solution.
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    Rope in Sugar Solution
  6. Waited for crystals to connect to the yarn.
  7. After crystallization, put it onto a plate.
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    Sugary Crystallization

Wood + Textile

Materials

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Wood + Textile
  • 3mm plywood
  • Neoprene
  • Stretchy Lycra
  • Trotec Lasercutter
  • Hot Glue Gun
  • Adobe Illustrator

Procedures

  1. Design equilateral triangles with isometric method in adobe illustrator.
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    Isometric Triangle
  2. Glue the plywood to neoprene.
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    Isometric Triangle
  3. Use the Laser Cutter to cut the plywood without cutting neoprene.
  4. View that the Laser Cutter did not cut through the neoprene.
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    Wood + Textile from the back
  5. It is valuable to teest and prorotype wood + textile to show that it doesn't cut through the fabric.
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    Wood + Textile from the back
  6. Finalize the Wood + Textile. It worked on the Trotec with the Power: 44, Velocity: 125, Frequency: 1000.
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    Wood + Textile Final
  7. Cut the extra peices.
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Wood + Lycra

Results

I had positive results for both wood + textile and sugar crystals. It required a lot of testing and trial and error.

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Sugar Crystallization
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Wood + Neoprene