Kimono Design

 

Started designing!! This design includes 3 of my samples made using the natural dye technique with leaves, onion skin, coffee, and copper mordanting. The fabrics used in these samples are silk and wool. Perhaps silk for a spring/summer kimono, and wool in the autumn/winter seasons. 

I blew up the scale of my prints for these designs but didn't edit the colour at all or the design would not be achievable through natural processes. Obviously finding a leaf large enough to match the second kimono would be tough but in order to illustrate a unique design look that wasn't repeated print on photoshop, this was my result. 

I love the colour palette and I think everything is beginning to tie in nicely! The end of the project is nearing this next coming Thursday, and I hope to hand in these visuals, my sketchbook of samples, this blog and an evaluation. Further development of the kimonos will endure over the next few days also.

This project has taught me so much about who I want to be as a designer and also within life in regards to ethics. As a plant-based vegetarian (that also avoids dairy. Oat milk rules!) It is becoming a large part of my young adulthood to start researching what I consume and how it affects other humans, animals and the planet we share. This has been a very inciteful and enjoyable topic that has combined two huge sectors of my life - Fashion, and being green. Which I will continue researching and developing interest in after the project's hand-in. 

It has also introduced me to a new love, blogging! An activity that I also intend to continue after hand-in.

For now, I leave you with this thought...

What simple thing could you do to be more green?

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