Material Research
COCOON
A Manifestation of Self Love and the journey within
Textile testing¶
Bendable Resin Textile¶
Working on experimenting a flexible resign composite by dilluting it with Ethanol and tweaking the resin parts percentage along as adding diffrent material to be used for the cocoon shell.
resin 'brand Erco' with a 2 to 1 ration of mixing
20 % of mix - Ethanol
Preparing a mix of Mica Powder and Ethanol
Resin - Kraft paper Composite¶
Fabrication Process
Final Result
!!!! Notes: The First 2 week the result was a somewhat flexible textile of approx 40 % flexibilty , heavily textured at one side, smooth at the other. However, It hardened up after that to an approx 08 % felxibilty rate.
Resin - Dehydrated Corn Husk Fibers Thin & Perforated¶
Fabrication Process
Result
Notes
The First 2 week the result was a flexible textile , heavily textured at one side, smooth at the other. However, It hardened up after that to an approx 20% felxibilty rate.
Resin - Dehydrated Corn Husk Fibers¶
Fabrication Process
Result With colouring
Result With Mica Powder
!!! Notes : The First 2 week the result was a somewhat flexible textile of approx 40 % flexibilty , heavily textured at one side, smooth at the other. However, It hardened up after that to an approx 08 % felxibilty rate.
Resin - Tull Mesh Fabric¶
Ink to Resin Tull Composite by haneen ja'afreh
The result looked like this
!!! Notes : The First 2 week the result was a somewhat flexible textile of approx 50 % flexibilty , heavily textured at one side, smooth at the other. However, It hardened up after that to an approx 10 % felxibilty rate.
Comparing two brands of Epoxy¶
Using Recyceled Jute Fibers box filler as the additive in this composite.
- First brand is Erco , same one as what's used for all the previous experiments in this page
2 to 1 mixing ratio
25 % Ethanol
The result looked like this.
!!! Notes : The First 2 weeks the result was a somewhat flexible textile of approx 80 % flexibilty. However, It hardened up after that to an approx 30 % felxibilty rate.
- The second one is Entropy Resins One
2 to 1 mixing ration
25 % Ethanol
!!! Notes : The First 2 weeks the result was a somewhat flexible textile of approx 90 % flexibilty. However, It hardened up after that to an approx 50 % felxibilty rate.
Using both can make a great head piece
3d Print on Stretched fabrics¶
Looking into a natural shape shifting textile idea I experimented using some parametric design the degrades in density to create a textile that can create a space
Printing on Stretched Lycra mesh Using TPU
Loved the outcome. However the printer size is too small for my needs and the big 3d printer that is available prints Using PLA Pallets.
Cork Textile¶
Using Cork texile that I got my hands on through a friend I laser cut it into Stripes , joined the strips at the ends and manipualted the items for a stretchable shape changing textile and experinted it on the cocoon shell prototype.
