For my Personal Project I wanted to explore detail and decoration. Why people want or need decoration and how adding detail to a plain object you can increase its value. To help start the project I visited a number of public buildings, to look at how architechts use decoration to add detail to a building. I wanted to create a link between decoration on buildings that is often over looked, to decoration in the form of jewellery.
OBSERVATIONAL DRAWINGS
I started looking at patterns as a way of decoration and after researching designers such as Rob Ryan and Su Blackwell I decided that I wanted to look at cut out patterns.
Also looking into the idea of wrapping opjects making them seem more important and expensive.
After experimenting with a range of different materials I decided that using the cut out technique, I wasn't going to capture the amount of detail as I wanted.
I searched through my box of old unwanted clothes and found an old lace top, a perfect, ready made, textile version of the cut outs I had wanted to create.
EXPERIMENTATION WITH LACE
FINAL JEWELLERY SET
The idea is you can wear this however you want, clip the rosette onto and item of clothing, in your hair, or clip onto the necklace or bacelet. A multi wearable piece.
Broach/Hair clip
