I chose to focus my project on tribal dressings, and use elements of child like paintings through my sketchbook. The tribe I focused on were The Huli People of Papau New Guinea as they dress in bright colours, and use a wide variety of textures, materials and shapes.
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Hulimen
The drawings I developed feature very structural ones, and ones that have a child like quality. My aim is to get the the two different drawing styles in to my fabrics, with sections of blocks of colour and shapes, and areas that are more fluid, and natural.
Moodboard
Final Fabrics
I think my final samples were successful in representing the tribal dressing of The Huli People. If I were to make improvements on my fabrics I would reconsider how I used the beads, glitter transfer paper and feathers. I have used the embellishing components too evenly on too many samples, and they would have worked better if I had used them more as an impact on less of them, like how I used the cocoa fiber on the 4th fabric.
The live brief has allowed me to go out of my comfort zone, and I have learnt how to balance a range of bright colours in one fabric. I also discovered how much work I can get done over a small space of time, as I only had 2 weeks to sample fabrics and create my final 6 samples.
