BEYOND FEATHERS by Just Florence

5.1.4. A09: Textile as Scaffold Technical textiles have various applications, among which agrotech, building, clothes, geotech, sports. In this class we will use textiles for composites, polymerisation, solidification, fabric formwork, crystallization, composites and biocomposites, agglomerates.

This class focuses on exploring techniques and applications of technical textiles in the industry. It introduces the concept of designing custom processes that require the design of a set of tools, processes and workflow.

Given my obsession with hair and feathers, I decided to mold the rachis of a feather so that I could start experimenting with them. The mold that I cut is a positive - negative to be able to give a 3D shape to what would be a spine made of textiles.

For the molding prototype I use felt, cause it’s the best combination of hairy textile and that works to make the “soft feathers fantasy”.

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