I went to the Umiversity of Georgia. They have an MFA for Fabrics Design. It
was geared towards the design not the manufacture of textiles. We didn't get
into the techniccal aspects of fabric production. That included classes in
Japanese textiles, Ancient American textiles, Peruvian and world history of
textiles. I took sild screen for fabrics, weaving and fabrcis portfolio for
drawing our own fabrics for industry sales..
The art department has a vault room that is environmnetally controlled. We
wore masks when we looked at the Peruvian textiles. They sometimes had mold
and we didn't want to get sick. We didn't touch anything without cotton
gloves.
I studied Native American textiles such as feather cloaks, leather netting
and costume designs. I went to Oklahoma for the Red Earth Festival and took
10 rolls of film. I had to do a 2 hour presentation with pictures, slides
and demonstrations of the texhniques I found. It was hard work to get a
lecture that long but I didn't scratch the top of the richness of the Native
American textiles. I'd like to gob ack and specialize in them.
The Japanese class had the history and indigo dying!!! We learned the
stitching required for the dye resist. We learned how to maintain the vat of
dye. I was always stitiching small samples. We had to have a collection of
stitiches.
The weaving class was good but recently found out that it lacked many things
a weaving class should have had. We never covered the way to draw a pattern
on paper for mistakes in the pattern book, or how to fix it. We also did not
cover whether looms are draw-up or drawdown types. It makes a difference in
the way the fabric looks on the loom. I recently found that out at a
workshop at Mannings. Weaving Studio in East Berlin, PA. Best day I've had
for learning in a while. I wrote to my past teacher and havent' heard back
yet. I'd love to go back as an instructor.
I'm working on getting my teaching certification so I can go back to teach.
My ideal class would be one that included the math, science and art as one
subject... a Renaissance theory class. Artists of that time had to cover all
the bases, not just focus on one sugject like we do now.
I love the textiles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kimiko Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] valois embroidery
At 04:37 AM 1/23/2006, you wrote:
We had the actual fabrics from Peruvian mummies and Japanese
dynasties)Now I'm learning about Renaissance textiles.
This sounds interesting. Mind me asking which school you are getting such
treasures to look at?
Kimiko
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