Glue and Cloth demonstration (11/10/11)

The aim of this week's lesson was to create unusual shapes by dressing up chairs and odd objects in order to absorb their shape and use it as a garment or as a piece of decoration. 

(Equipment needed: 1 litre PVA glue, 1 roll of cling film, one roll of ''mutton cloth'' and a selection of tights)

The first step of the exercise was to pick a chair of out choice and cover it up with cling film. There a few reasons for that, firstly by 

covering it with cling film we protect the chair of any damage and secondly the lines of the cling film make interesting shapes which will transfer onto our fabric later on. 

(Brown tights wrapped around )

(Black tights added)

After that, we started wrapping the base of the chair with different tights, all around. Using twists, knots, plats etc.

We mixed different types and colours of tights to give it more detail. After we finished with the tights, we added the mutton cloth on the top and covered the chair with PVA glue and left it to dry in a safe place for next week. 

(Mutton cloth added)

For the second part of the exercise we decided to combine two different chairs together to give a bigger and better shape, with more angles and unique shapes. 

We used two small chairs layed on top of one another and secured them tightly. After that we repeated the process of the first exercise which was to cover the chairs in cling film for protection. 

For the second part of the exercise we decided to use grey lightweight jersey.

(Wrapping the two chairs into jersey)

The final part of the session was to cover the second piece of chair experimentation with PVA glue and leave it together with the first one to dry for next session.