Developing my ideas for fabrics

  After my first attempt at making fabric samples did not go as well as I intended, I looked back through my research of straitjackets to give me some ideas of what techniques I can experiment with. The black and white grainy photographs shown below were inspiring for me, and gave off the same stretched, and distorted feel as my spider webs photographs.

 

 http://www.facenfacts.com/daily_img/6500_L_jacket-m.jpg 

  

 

http://www.aboutfacesentertainment.com/images/magicians/about_magic/about_magic8.jpg 

http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/wp-content/uploads/houdini_straitjacket.jpg

It would be useful to get a stretched, tied, tight quality coming through in my knits as my previous samples look too basic. By revisiting my research I have also decided I wanted my knit samples to be made mostly from cotton and viscose, as it is smooth, natural and glossy yarns that remind me most of the webs.