The trick of the eye...

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!! I know its a bit late but better late than never right? ^_^

A project based on the design and surface mainly focussing on the fabric itself and not on how the garment is being constructed. However, it must be in a wearable state.

Looking at optical illusions and images which trick the eye, i created my own design for screen printing my fabric, sampling the prints with different colours and different widths of the black lines on the fabric.

The whole garment was hand stitched.

Here are the final printed fabrics::

If you tilt your head and move slightly, the print itself (curvy lines) appear to move.

Printing on wider lines gives the illusion that the lines are not parallel, when in fact they are,

I also used a puff binder, allowing the print to rise and give the fabric more texture and dimension.

the pinned garment

Designer: Joanne Tse 

Model: Grace Pullinger

Photographer: Daniel Igbinyemi