week 5-6 unit x

 

A New Direction 

This Photograph above left I had taken, as the sun illuminates from behind almost acting as a backdrop, for the intricate structure of the Blackpool tower. I love the fact that the sun shines in the day, piercing through the tower casting shadows and shapes, making it a powerful structure. On the other hand for some this structure can appear over powering and a little drab. The colour for me wasn’t what I had imagined or what I intended to use. It was a disappointment  to see, as on so may postcards, the tower is a bright cherry red and when presented in front of it appeared to be more of a burgundy in colour than red. After sampling a knitted pieces I found my choice of colours to look dull and uninviting so changed my pallet. 

 

photograph taken in the same spot as above however after dark.

 I found at night the Tower is still as much of a dominant structure and tourist attraction, however much less dominating and visually beautiful, light up with a rainbow of bright, vivid colours. This is just the type of colour pallet I intend to use for my horse/donkey bridle.

 

 

I intend to include some form of neon light within the knit sample by creating pockets and inserting them this will hopefully bounce off the reflective yarns and materials within my samples and produce a glow resembling that of the tower.

 

 

using a tension of 7 and E-wrapping multiple colours I was able to create this knitted piece using the colours taken from the illuminations however for me still wasn't bright enough. Therefore I then continued on with the knit and later weaved in glow sticks impersonating influences taken from the Blackpool tower.

 

 

 

 

 

Photographs taken of knitted pieces, taken in the dark and worked with on Photoshop in order to get the effect of it illuminating imitating that of the tower. I plan to use these C.A.D designs in order to progress on the knitting machines with my design ideas.