Scarf Designs

Over the past week I have been working hard to create my scarf designs for the degree show. I am planning to create both square and long rectangular scarfs on both wool and silk fabrics. While creating my designs I have been thinking about composition scale and layout. I have been looking on the internet at Liberties looking at scarves on their website for inspiration. On Monday I am going to London to do some further market research.

Here are some images of some of the designs I have made, some have been more successful than others and these will be the ones I will have printed.

I really like this first one I have tried to stick to 3-4 colours in this design making it more commercial. I plan to have this printed on silk satin at the size of 100cm by 100cm.

This was the first design I created I have tweaked the colours slightly but overall I really like the design. My plan is to have this printed on Silk Satin Viscose then I will devore the white squares away leaving the grid with the florals design. I am hopeful this will create a really interesting look.

In this design I have tried to experiment with scale and colour. I have used the same design in the middle and the edge but I have changed the scale and colour of the pattern creating a juxtaposition. I plan to have this printed on Silk satin at the size of 140cm by 140cm.

This was an experimented I created with some of my ideas following my tutorial with Allison willhoughby. In this Design I have experimented with the idea have the pattern as a border with the main part of the scarf being a large block of colour. I then plan to devore the white large dots out of the design giving the material 2 thicknesses. I like this idea but I feel that a different design would work better using this concept.

In this design I tried to experiment with colour and scale contrasting black and white with my bold colour palette I think the idea is good but I don't like this design. 

 

This finally design is using my favourite Black and white Design from the Stew Exhibit. I really like how this design is going It is still in the process of being created as i am putting the dots long the centre border. I am hopeful that this will look really effective when completed. 

I am as of yet to start my long scarf designs, I am wanting to use my market research in London to inform these designs in particular the scale of print and the size of the scarf its self.  from my current market research I have not seen any long silk scarves so my current plan is for the square scarves to be silk and long scarves to be wool. this plan may change after Monday depending on my findings in London. 

I am planning on creating A1 samples which correspond to some of my scarf designs. I plan to use the same designs maybe in a different colour or scale developing them through devore, dischrge and foiling techniques in the print room. With these samples I plan to create Garment fronts showing my design in another context. 

here are a few design I have so far:

This first one needs the colour reworking as it currently doesn't look right to me. 

I am going to create new screens which I will use to work into the prints further like i did with my stew samples. I am going to use bias binding to show this designs in a fashion context. I have done this in previous projects and I feel it works well.