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3. Circular fashion

This week we worked in modular garments and creating our own master piece

Inspiration

Wenufoye that means “Canelo del cielo” is the Mapuche Flag, you can find a Cultrún in the middle of it. The Cultrún is the Mapuche drum, in its flat surface, which represents the surface of the earth, you can see a circular design of the Mapuche worldview,

The Four cardinal points and between them, the sun, the moon and the stars; symbols of world knowledge.

The Real Story

I only tell you this cause before I left Chile, I was checking through all my stuff and I found a medal that someone once gave me.

Then I stayed a long time looking at it and deciding if I should bring it or not hahahah, I didn't. But her figure stayed in my mind and that’s where my inspiration for this assignment came from.

Process

When i found a good photo, i started to draw some doddles and after simplifying i went from this,

to this,

Finally, I grabbed my scissors and began to see what I could get out of this figure, how I could connect it between them and start to make a plane with it. Bonus track, I wanted to be able to connect the figure with itself.

Then I passed the sketch to Rhino and designed my figure with the exact measurements.

The second step was that I wanted to prototype with two different materials, one that would allow me to iterate multiple times and a final one. I use “Hilado 240”, that is a thicker type of paper, to iterate. Change some measures in the process and find my final piece.

For this material, I use the following laser cutting settings:

For Cut: 100% SPEED, 11% POWER

Once I got my pieces cut, I started to assemble the “fabric” and see if I could hem it.

Like I have a good result, I decided to cut the pieces in the final material “Goma Eva” or Foamy. I wanted to make them out of felt but I couldn't find material for direct purchase, so I used what I had on hand.

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For this material, i use the following laser cutting settings.

For Cut: 100% SPEED, 25% POWER

Assemble Process

Final Results

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Thanks for reading! See you net week!


Last update: 2022-08-07