Description

Very widely used by the textile industry, this material is currently found in the majority of clothing, mainly in sportswear.

This workshop proposes to divert its function, to use its properties in order to explore plastic forms ranging from sculpture to installation, or even the possibility of performance.

Designing a sculptural, spatial or performative form from an extensible material absolutely requires a structure for the form to be accomplished. Whether this structure is internal or external, to build a work with this textile, certain steps are necessary. Ideally, this material is designed to be stretched in order to produce smooth shapes. To adapt it to a structure, it is necessary to understand its extensibility in order to be able to create the template for the cuts. Pattern making is therefore essential to the project as well as the creation of a structure or the appropriation of an existing structure.

Any structural form is possible to deploy this textile: the frame of a painting, the skeleton of a volume, the use of an existing space, without forgetting the possibility of using one's own body as a structure. This material has its constraints, but also this fascinating epidermal elasticity that induces multiple extensions.

Niveau

All audiences

Equipement required

- Sketchbook + various drawing tools.

- Fine-tipped felt-tip pens for marking fabric + silver pen for dark fabric.

- Scissors exclusively for fabric, sharpened.

- Cutter, paper scissors.

- Paper glue, masking tape.

- Strip of at least 50cm and if possible 100cm + set square.

- Elastic fabric or even elastic clothing (there will also be some on site)

- Any element that can be used as a structure is welcome. (See statement)

- Sewing thread, seam ripper, pins. (If you have them)

- Sewing machine, overlocker. (If you have them)

- Jigsaw. (If you have them)

Any questions?

If you have any questions, please refer to informations pratiques !

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