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Description Inspire Process Linear Frail Layers Delicate Transparent Texture Contact
White on White
White on White is a simple collection which ultimately produces a simple yet beautiful aesthetic through the clarity of embroidery technique onto transparency. Inspired by the patterns and purposeful holes of vintage lace and crochet, the meaning of each piece changes through the manipulation of fabric, with the desire to become more delicate and dainty. Handled with grace and care, the translucent fabrics and threads are hand sewn or machine stitched with precision and craftsmanship, allowing a distinguished layer of marks, texture and wonderful hues of white. White is the purest of colour in the spectrum and deserves to be appreciated in a new light, and this collection enables the viewer to appreciate the ‘colourless’ colour through the careful consideration of variant shades and embroidery technique. Some of the connotations of transparent are clear, fragile, translucent and elusive, which depict what the form of a naked body is, as skin is also a fragile material like the chosen fabrics used to translate this point within the collection; this reveals the concept of the collection, which is to conceal and protect - yet to also make enticing - the female form through lingerie.
Inspire
“Oh Grandmother’s lace, so delicate and fine. Memories breathe within the spaces Of stories and dreams we shall never know. Oh Grandmother’s lace, so worn with time. Tales of nostalgia yearn to be told Yet are hidden, as my love for the lace shall grow.”
Process
Hand Embroidery Techniques: Cloud Filling French Knot Pekinese Stitch Runing Stitch Satin Stitch Seeding Machine Techniques: Applique Bobbin Relief Machine Stitch Reverse Applique Materials: Cotton Organdy Devore Fabric Habotai Silk Rip Stop Nylon Satin Silk Silk Organza Threads: Embroidery Cotton Boucle Linen Thread Picasso Gimp Viscose Cotton Viscose Tubing
Linear
Layers
Frail
Delicate
Transparent
Texture
Contact
07902191949 sallyjbarton@hotmail.co.uk