knitting block

Obviously, we had a substantial, exciting week in the knitting room. We started get in touch with knitting and learned some basic way to knit a fabric on knitting machine

Monday
   As I wrote before, we learn to ‘casting on ’on the machine, and used the ‘transfer stick’ to knit different pattern.

Tuesday
  A new way to knit lace and ‘draw ’colourful fabric, we try to add some yarn and fabric on it to make it look special. I had a problem about knitting. Specifically, I tried to make the pattern of mosaic, but yarn could not be casted on.

Thursday
 Finally, we learned how to casting off, and I knitted a completed piece. But it’s very basic, which means, I need to plan to design the shape and colour on the fabric in this weekend.

In november ,we have learned 'pattern knitting' and 'triangle making' in these week,which is some technique about knitting something in different shapes and be add some clear colour. The most of the time we spend on practicing and making our final sample. For in case, I made a plan for my practicing and experiment, but though the result, the plan maybe not that successful.

i cannot do all of it as completely the same as my thought . For instance, it's quite difficult to make some cross pattern which might look like mosaic in a way, because I cannot push close stitch forward in the same time.(the yarn will drop off) although it will be quick if I use crochet, I want to make it by using new technique of knitting on knitting machine. So I did a piece first and casted off it with hole when I finish the row. Then I continue to knit on it again. It totally different from the first time I thought, but I change to another way.

In fact, there are still some piece that I cannot made as I want. Like: I wanted to knit a lace but it fall

welcome collection



http://www.wellcomecollection.org/full-image.aspx?page=411&image=corset-brass

  

In 13th oct, we visited the medicine museum called welcome collection. I found out a lot of inspiration a bout the combination of art and medical, especially the exhibition on the second floor,and the theme called medicine man exhibition which displays various hundreds years of devices is quite ancient and interesting.
  this time I focus on corset, which is the thing I always imagine in the my mind. In my imagination, corset, a kind of fancy personal item,  is only consist with wire and lace, and it's impossible to be cause of the torture to western ladies about 400 hundred years.

  According to the label beside, it said that 'it is not clear the corset was worn in order to minimise the waist or as an orthopaedic device.' .But obliviously, corset crush internal organ if people war it in along time. It is supported by serial book, and one of them called<the corset a cultural history>. In that book, I realise that corset has long history from late Renaissance into twentieth century, and it's the most controversial garment in the history of fashion. Surprisingly, 'it is major cause of I'll health and even death.'

However, there are still had some advantage if we see it in the other side of it, the positive connotation ' of social status, artistry, respectability, beauty, youth and erotic allure.

In fact, there is  a similar thing which also create pain for beauty called 'San cun Jin Liam ' in China.  In the ancient time, Chinese women's feet must be bound ,as the same as the '18 inches' waist in western. Nevertheless, these kind of 'pretty little bondage'  bring millions of suffering to human being in the ancient time. I hope , starting now, we can actuarially make some item helpful and health, not something make people tortured.


Bibliography :
       Steele,V(2001) The corset: a culture of history U.S

Kniting

 Today we started our first technique block--kniting.Generally, these is a little bit different with the machine i used before on the starting point, and also, i finally understood how to use the tansfer stick to make a pattern on the kniting piece.
 we used to start kniting straitly which means we didn't have use our hand to make a start. I quite confused when I saw it. But after knowing these, i found it's much neater and easier to controll.


In the afternoon we maked some hand- kniting and I learned to how to knit 'bubble' which is a kind of  kniting tachnique in these time.   

POP UP- Obeject choosing

The bear is a kind of hand puppet which is a special way that adult talk to children. A fluffy animal can make children be calm and be easier to listen what their parents(or the others)taking. Even the rest of objects in my collection is part tradition childhood memorise, which means, people (children) used to use them to make a story to tell,(a little theatre in their house). I'm attractived by the pattern and the texture which are filled with the old and sweet atmosphere of children's playing. The connection  between is their imagination, Which makes various story by play toys on their own tiny space, which is compare with the real world. Because of the these toys, they help children to finish their dream.

Key words

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Children's imagination

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Rough guide edit week

Rough guide edit week

to make 100 rough guide books, we started choose page in what we were draw in our A5 sketch books. I'm so surprise that people choose the page which is inspire of the underground from my sketch book.

I added some tea water ,which is the inspiration from the pattern on the block, on papers during the drawing time.

In consider of the print colour of 100 photocopies has to be black and white, I made some little changes in each page I chosed .

museum of childhood(draft)

According to the lecture, I visited the museum on Saturday, and I tried to think about the display in that place.

The hall which painted in some pure light colour makes people think it really sweet and fantasy. I think that can make children be more relaxing when they visit. Especially the time I into the entrance, it’s a toy factory rather than a museum.

The museum is filled with toy corners and film in the front of the museum, and shows how attractive and creative they are.

the 'coner'

In the central of the museum, there's a toy store with some Olympic mascots. And the objects are around it, which make the display of exhibition is totally like the shape of 'U'.

On right hand side, there are series mirrors which show us the theme called moving toys. A kind of spin roll which consist of mirror and serial picture for playing carton is next to it.



camra





Obviously, that's is a strong connection between moving picture and toy camera, so the electronic moving toys, including toy train, 3D glasses and electronic car,  are behind spin.



shadow puppet

When we mention about the moving toys, puppet also can be one of the members, that's the reason why they are at the end of the room, which links to the 'playing grow up' toy on the left hand side.

On the whole, we can see the visiting process on the ground floor is like: moving-electronic-controlling toy-playing grow up-custom, and each of toys have their similar point.

ROUGH GUIDE

Rough guide

In the past two weeks, we started our first project called rough guide which is about finding interesting things in three specified street( Piccadilly, Bond street and Dover street) to make a ‘simple introduction’.

  

                              

Remain& sign on the road

I quite interested in the floor on the way of the road. Although most of them are constituted by square made of stone, over years remains can tell the street long time history to everyone in its own special way. Sometime we can recognize the road and know where we are if we notice marks.

      -      Colour& pit

         

  Because of the long time raining and the high frequency of the foot press of people, the remain become more and more obvious.

                                                                             

    -      The order of the blocks

Different organizes make different pattern which can afford a lots of information. They used various shapes and orders of stone (or the other materials) to let people notice and be care of.

   

   

 

   -      The size of the block

   

                                 

         

Tate Britain visit (draft)

After visiting the the new exhibition called "" in Tate britain. I realise I totally focus on holman's painting which is the most colourful open in my opinion. The painter used various but suitable colour in one painting which be more attractive,especially the colour on human's cloth.
After searching this artist online ,i found some information about him. He paid a lot of attention when he draw 'fabric pattern' in each painting with some vivid colour. ('His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour and elaborate symbolism.' from wiki)

, I found that The features ofWilliam Hunt Holman's painting were influenced by the writings of 'John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. '( from wiki)