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10. Textile Scaffold

Research

An aquarelle of different color crystals

Every week I am amazed by all the new approaches that you can achieve for textiles and Fashion, new discoveries and new techniques, new points of view and a new opportunity to get out of your comfort zone. Anastasia Pistofidou’s lecture was fascinating, she talked about all the applications of textiles as scaffold.

Scaffolding

Scaffolding has existed for a very long time, perhaps since man began to build upwards, applying extensive use of branches, wooden planks, or bamboo, connected with ropes, nails, and articulated interlocking games. It is a fundamental component in the field of construction, representing a temporary grid structure with platforms. The structure of the scaffolding can be made using a variety of materials, including wood, aluminum, and steel, based on the specific needs of the project.

A winter muscular hoodie

Biocomposite

Biocomposites are natural fibre-reinforced biopolymers. Biocomposites, innovative materials derived from a synergy of biopolymers and reinforcing agents, that have emerged as promising contenders and scienties have been developing these materials as an alternative to conventional materials that may be nonrenewable, recalcitrant, or manufactured by pollution emitting processes. The foundation of biocomposites lies in their composition, typically encompassing natural polymers such as collagen, chitosan, or alginate, interwoven with reinforcing elements like cellulose, nanofibers, or hydroxyapatite.

Different types of arquitectual ornaments use for decoration or constructions

[Biocomposites]{https://www.sciencedirect.com/}

Crystallization

Crystallization is a process that leads to solids with highly organized atoms or molecules. Crystallization can occur by various routes including precipitation from solution, freezing of a liquid, or deposition from a gas. It can form a single crystal, perhaps with various possible phases, stoichiometries, impurities, defects, and habits. The final form of the solid is determined by the conditions under which the fluid is being solidified, such as the chemistry of the fluid, the ambient pressure, the temperature, and the speed with which all these parameters are changing. A crystal or crystalline solid, is a solid material whose constituents, such as atoms, molecules or ions, are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. The scientific study of crystals and crystal formation is known as crystallography. Every crystal has an orderly, internal pattern of atoms, with a distinctive way of locking new atoms into that pattern to repeat it again and again.

A table of the formation of the crystal atoms

As crystals grow, differences in temperature and chemical composition cause fascinating variations. The crystals grow when there is the right conditions all together: space, heat, pressure, time and the right mix of chemical ingredients.

A picture of the different structures that a crystal can have

[Geologypage]{https://www.geologypage.com/2016/03/how-do-crystals-form-grow.html#google_vignette}

Inspiration

I looked through a lot of alumnis fron Fabricademy and looked for inspiration. I loved the work of Alicia Potts and Carole Collet. both amazing designers and always challenching themselves to do new things and making concious with each work.

Alicia Potts

She is a Bio / Innovational Material Specialist, specializing in the identification and research of new materials, as well she is a creator of product with view of the direction and implementation of them into fashion systems. She pays attention on the product diversification direction from a creative and design-driven perspective. She demostrate a development of performance capabilities and requirements to create desirable, scalable and feasible bio-based materials for specific applications. Innovator of Sweat crystallisation, Bio-based Plastics and New material.

Crystalized ballet slippers

Carole Collet

Carole Collet has been fascinated with synthetic biology since she had the privilege to work with Sir John Sulston in 2007. She is also a researcher, designer, and curator of the exhibition ‘Alive: New Design Frontiers’ at the EDF Foundation in Paris. Carole Collet is currently working on projects that imagine how reality might be in 2050. She is a Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures and Director of the Design & Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins in London. She likes to draw a future scenario in which an overpopulated planet cannot cope with their needs for food and clothing.

A piece of textile creating forms like ribbons and with crystals

Workflow

Crystals

Needed materials:

▪ Crystal powder (Borax, Alum, Pottasiun Nitate)
▪ Tap water
▪ Filter paper (or a fabric to filter the solution)
▪ Clean jars
▪ Stainless steel pots
•   Different materials to crystalized: textile, pipe cleaners, leather
• Textiles or paper to cover the jars

General steps:

1.  Prepare all the needed materials and prepare the structures that can be made of fabrics. Fix the structure inside the container in such a way that it does not touch the bottom or the sides of the container.
2.  Boil the water
3.  Mix the crystal powder + water
4.  Stir until the powder is fully dissolved
5.  Filter the obtained solution into the jar
6.  Wait...
7.  Remove the structure and wash it. Then apply some nail polish all over the piece.

ALUM

Recipe

. 2 1/2 tablespoons alum
. 1/2 cup very hot tap water

First I gather all the ingredients. I wanted to try different textures and materials. For the alum I decided to use a textile called in Mexico "manta de cielo" (sky blanket), somoe stones to see if I could get different shapes and the pipe cleaners.

Materials used

I looked for the recepies that were given on the lecture and follow step by step the indications. While the water was on the fire I hold with thread the different stones ans in different position and prepare the jar and hol the textile with some clothespins and made a kind of snowflake with a silver pipe cleaner and a spiral with a pink one. After I finished the procedure I pour the solution into de jars.

Materials used Materials used

I made it on the late afternoon, so I waited until the next day and see if it had worked. Sadly it did not. I was not sure what was the issue, but I made a research and found out that propably needed more alum and that I could heat the solution adding mor alum and leave it again all night. I hope this works.

BORAX

Recipe

. 3 tablespoons borax
. 1 cup very hot tap water

With the use of Borax, I made the same mixture as with alum following the recipe. I prepare the pipe cleaners, a piece of lace and a piece of leather to see the reaction of the powder with different materials, the jar and the solution following anastasias recepies from the lecture.

A jar with the pipe cleaners in different shapes and colors The same jar with some crystals on the bottom and on the pipe cleaners A photo of the crystals formed on the pipe cleaners after the night passed by

In this case, the pipe cleaners did form some crystals but not as much as they were suppoed to. The other two jars were exactly the same, so I made the procedure again adding more Borax and I left them again over night.

Here the photos of the other two jars without crystals. In the leather's case what happened was that it detached the paint.

A jar with a lace flower hanging in the middle A jar with a piece of black leather bended and hangging in the middle

SODIUM NITRATE

Recipe

. 110 g NaCIO
. 100 ml hot water.

I prepared two different textiles, one a printed satin and the other suede. I ganged them in the middle of the jar. On the stove, I put the water into the pot, heated it and dissolved the sodiun nitrate. When it got dissolved I pour the liquid into the jar and let it cooled down. After a fee hours there where some crystals formed on the bottom of the jar like needless.

A jar with a pieces of textile A jar with growing crystals at the bottom and on the textile

I put a textile in another jar, but It was soo big that it absorded all the wate. I will try it with a smaller piece.

BIOCOMPOSITE

When we had the lecture week before about biofabrication and biotextiles, I tried to do the bio resin, but it did not work at the time, so I decided to give it a shot this time and tried it first with lace on a mannequine previously cover with plastic.

Recipe:

. 48 g Grenetine
. 8 g Glycerine
. 240 ml water

The mixture should be first mixed all the components at 60°C until smooth and then boil at 100°C for 5- 10min. Boilng the plastic will change the chains and make it harder but slightly more brittle.

It was a bit of a caos because the bio-resin while it dries is liquid and it slipped onto the mannequin and lost its shape, but with patience it began to dry and retain the shape. I made a collar. I waited the night to dry and by the next day I was stiffed and a little flexible at the same time. I removed the lace from the mannequin and tried it on. It´s nice!

A picture of a lace on a mannequin with bio-resin The collar over a clak shirt

Check out the weekly assignment [here](http://fabricademy.fabcloud.io/handbook/assessment/criteria/#10-textile-scaffold) or login to your [NuEval](http://nueval.fabacademy.org) progress and evaluation page.
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References & Inspiration

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Overview material research outcomes

example from the documentation of Loes Bogers TextileLab Amsterdam 2019-20
Biofoam Gelatin foil Bioresin Biosilicone
Starch Rubber Biolinoleum Alginate net Alginate foil
Alginate string Agar foil Bio composite Reused PLA

Tools

Process and workflow

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Ingredients & Recipes

Prepare this recipe 1 by collecting the ingredients necessary, to be found in the list below:

=== "ingredients"

    * xxx gr
    * xxx gr
    * xxx gr
    * xxx ml
    * xxx gr

=== "tools"

    * xxx gr
    * xxx gr
    * xxx gr
    * xxx ml
    * xxx gr

=== recipe fishleather and fishskin bio-plastic (food waste)

    * measure - measure - measure
    * add, combine, mix..
    * simmer, cook, boil, freeze, burn, crush...
    * mix, smash, stack, overlay..
    * cast, pour, press..
    * dry, aereate, dehydrate..
    * remove, peel, unmold..
    * finishing touches

Documenting and comparing experiments

TEST SERIE BIO-PLASTIC
Material pic Material name polymer plastifier filler emulsifier
bio-rainbow biokelp powder 12 gr glycerol 100 ml rainbow dust 1 kg green soap a drop
bio-rainbow biokelp powder 12 gr glycerol 100 ml rainbow dust 1 kg green soap a drop
bio-rainbow biokelp powder 12 gr glycerol 100 ml rainbow dust 1 kg green soap a drop
bio-rainbow biokelp powder 12 gr glycerol 100 ml rainbow dust 1 kg green soap a drop
RESULTS

Two ways of showcasing and comparing results with images below

On the left an image of a sample made by xxx with xxx. The dye is more xxx. On the right, an image of a sample made by xxx with xxx and xxx. Here the dye is more xxx.


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Recipes

  1. recipe: salmon skin fish-leather ↩