Mehmoona Rahim
Weave Designer
Artist Bio Currently studying Textile with Surface Design at Huddersfield University, specialising in Weave and Commercial Design. Weave is interesting as there is no end to the different experiments and techniques you can do. Experienced in analysing different woven fabric and being able to add little changes to a traditional weave structure to make it a new design. Taken part in a year placement at Taylor & Lodge as an assistant designer. Got the chance to design for the A/W 17 collection and a few of the designs were included in a customer special, which were selected and ordered by the customer to be woven as pieces. Studied art, textile and textile technology in high school. Completed Huddersfield New College with triple distinction in BTEC Extended Diploma in Art & Design (level 3) along with Statistics and Decision Mathematics.
Academic Skills
-Trained in using the table loom and arm loom -Experienced in tapestry and know basic skills of rug tufting -Confident in using Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign -Skilled in using Scotweave and creating Jacquard weaves -Bilingual. I know English, Urdu and Punjabi -Excellent numeracy & statistic skills
Micro-pattern Project Statment Micro-pattern is a project about patterns created at a small scale. The focus of the project is to look at different digital prints i.e. magazines, newspapers, books and scan them in to Photoshop, then select pixels from the images to create a random pattern. The objective is then to make those digital patterns in to a weave by converting the selected pixels in to a 24-shaft peg plan. The designer wanted to explore weaves that can be created from different pixeleted digital printout because each printout has a different pixel resolution so the randomly selected pattern would be different each time. Furthermore the designer wanted to combine these different structures to create a woven fabric that is created of different micro-patterns. The final product for this project is a spring/summer jumper and keeping this in mind the designer decided to go for a soft powder pastel colour palette. The warp is created with a duck egg blue and cloud grey stripe.
Design 1
P179-3U
P114-10U
P41-4U
Design 2
P179-3U
P114-10U
P66-10U
Design 3
P179-3U
P114-10U
P92-14U
Design 4
P179-3U
P114-10U
P140-10U
Design 5
P179-3U
P114-10U
P85-11U
mehmoona568@gmail.com
Mehmoona Rahim
Mehmoona Rahim
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