During second year at BCU students had the opportunity to take four weeks work placement with textiles companies. I travelled to London and worked with Pattern Textiles for two of those weeks. Pattern specialise in computer generated prints, embroidery and embellishment, vintage garments, screen prints, hand-painted designs and t-shirts. Their designs are trend driven and magazine research and feed back from companies they sell to help them to establish design briefs. They also look to vintage designs for construction, detailing and print inspiration. For the other two weeks Pattern gave me a live project, below.
To create fifteen textiles designs for a women’s wear collection using the chosen colour way, above. The collection will be for autumn/ winter and will include three different directions; animal print, floral’s and geometrics. Three final designs from each story should be made-up into garment swatches.
