Experimenation

The perforated ribbon James Long sample inspired me because because it is an innovated way of creating a fabric surface that looks up market and expensive. I wanted to create a knitted that leather response to that fabric. through experimentation I decided it would be more successful to not occupy each lace hole with leather or ribbon because I didn't want to detract to much from the knitwear's bendable qualities because the fabric would not be wearable if it was to heavy.

I combined the traditional lace hole knitting with leather because punk's would often adapt traditional things in a controversial way. I adapted this knit with leather to introduce a reference to bondage with the neon yellow because the colour battles and rebels against both fabrics in most ways possible.

Stand Work

I started to analyse James longs jumpers to base some of the brands popular jumper silhouettes into the collection of that I was being sensitive to the brand's market. I'm also aware that he collection is for menswear so I want add a modern black base that the knit samples can be embedded into and the yarn qualities can rebel against perforated and scuba fabrics. I collaged my album cover designs over the jumpers. This was a way of experimenting with the placement of where the knitwear will go.

I feel that the knit samples on the stand look dated when they dominate the stand. The colour combinations have a grossness to them that I feel captures the essence of punk, however I feel that the knit would benefit from a black background because it would lift the vibrancy of the colours that was lost because of the combinations of only vivid colours, particularly the pink and green mohair combination.

Sex Pistols tartan

After the tutorial with Elenor we started to throw ideas around as to how I could create different customised tartans. The idea that interested me the most seeing as the colour selection is coming from album cover sources I felt that it would be most appropriate to look at the track lengths of some of the artists albums. I used ‘Never mind the bollocks’ by the sex pistols to create a grid by using each minute as a centimetre.

Tartan grid based on the track lengths of 'The Sex Pistols'; 'Never Mind the Bollocks' album.

Yellow stripes in reference to the track lengths.

Colour inspiration for the knitting above. Tartan that I made out of The Clash's album covers.

Tartan

From the research into the punk movement I have found out that the punks tended to manipulate traditional British things in a controversial way. The royal Stewart tartan was a popular tartan that the punks would introduce into the clothing.

In the history of tartan the ‘Dress Act of 1746’ wanted to ban tartan in Scotland to prevent warrior clans. When the law was lifted in 1782 tartan was no longer ordinary highland dress.

The controversy of the tartan in Scotland could have been the appeal to the punk fashion movement.

I have decided to knit some tartan designs in no traditional colours in the design. I have taken colour inspiration from Jamie Reid’s Sex pistols album cover designs.

Working in a team this week has adapted my style as a knitter. This is because I was keen for my group to help me to select yarns and colours to knit with. This has challenged my knitting ability because some of the weights of yarns were out of my comfort zone. I have found this useful because I wouldn’t have pushed myself without my team’s encouragement. I have also found the feed back from my group very helpful and inspiring because we negotiated design ideas and improvements between ourselves.