lasso Decorative Textile by Cristina Orozco Cuevas |
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| DESIGN NAME: lasso PRIMARY FUNCTION: Decorative Textile INSPIRATION: I named it lasso as a long rope with a running noose at one end. This project can be described as: experimentation. This fabric started with the research of something very different from the result. More than inspiration this project is about having luck, stumbling upon, chance discovery, fortuity and accident. It is a piece of hard work, research, mulish and not withdraw. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: half industrial - half crafted, designed with textile CAD software, woven in jacquard electronic looms and cut by hand. It is woven industrially, but cut by hand which gives job to machines and external people. It forms vertical channels as a kind of fray where the light can pass through very sofltly. The frays are crafted processes and lasts months. A fabric with this kind of processes in the industry mills is nearly impossible but not that much. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: It has a special appearance as it seems as an extra application or embroidery upon the fabric but in fact it is woven like that. People always want to touch first than see the furry yarns. If there is light behind the soft feeling is quite special and light passes through the frayed parts. This kind of textile can replace goose feathers. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in March, 2012 and ended in September, 2012. |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: All polyester dyed yarns woven in Jacquard electronic looms. The floated yarns are cut manually by a special tool we call knife shutter. The weave technique is very old (double fabric). However the important aspect is how I applied the weaves interlaced in order to be viable to be produced and not just as a prototype as good productivity performance. The special tool developed reminded textile engineers old techniques to make corduroy. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Widths available: 1.40 m and 2.80 m. Rapport repeat: 35 cm width x 25 cm height. Uses: lamps, pillows, bedscarfs and decorative curtains. As a finish ironing the loose fur brings more volume and the frayed channels are more obvious. It is of massive production and the loose yarns are strongly moored with a tafeta special weave union. TAGS: Jacquard, textile, decoration, fabric, lasso, half indusrtrial, half handmade, fur RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The research was completely experimental. Textile engineers were afraid that using this technique on industrial looms could not work, specially the machines weaving. The process of cutting the loose yarns was hard in order to bring a product that because of the hand crafted process would not be so expensive that would not work with the market prices. Besides the lead time to deliver a roll of this product within 3 weeks at least. Since warping process till the client's door. The cut part can be done by external workers so other people get a job. CHALLENGE: At the beginning the aim was to develop a fabric with square bags. It would have little bags to put inside tools or jewelry. After weaving and testing different techiques, this came up as a serendipity all of it. There were more than 10 previews designs to get to the final lasso fabric. The weaves interaction result was floats in warp and weft. To cut the yarns in vertical and horizontal, we developed a special tool that works as a long shuttle knife to have a better and faster production. It was an enormous challenge to have it accomplished as a product and to convince the mill that it would work. ADDED DATE: 2013-09-19 11:25:31 TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Cristina Orozco Cuevas IMAGE CREDITS: Cristina Orozco Cuevas, 2013. |
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NAME: Cristina Orozco Cuevas Studio PROFILE: Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a textile designer born in Mexico City in 1985. She has a BA on Textile Design graduated with honors in Universidad Iberoamericana. She has been specialized on Jacquard and dobby patterns for about more than 6 years. She has about 800 original designs being commercialized into the market. She has been innovating on techniques and conceptualization of woven textiles on her country creating a “trademark” of author textiles. She has designed for several markets from very massive till exclusive ones. She is a pioneer on developing fabrics for children, creating unique stories and characters as an objection against global aesthetics. She has made designs for the hospitality, residential, furniture and fashion accessories market. She describes herself as a passionate fabric`s fan. She defines her design process as a “wealth of conceptual information about to explote on the head and the need to create”. You just have to look at everything and textile it”. She has developed fabrics for mexican brands as ROCOCO and Nua Colección, for international brands she has worked with House of Mann. She also does some illustration, web concept and graphic design too as a need of her clients. She has been awarded in prestigious contests on her country as the Quorum (2008) and the Sixth Biennial of Design (INBA, 2011). Also she has won the Third Iberoamerican Biennal of Design in Matadero Madrid (2012). She has exhibited her work on Centres des Textiles Contemporains de Montreal in Canada, Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico) and Museo de Arte Popular (Mexico). Now she is working on Jacquard experimentation with techniques and yarns in order to take the best of craft and industrial processes. |
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Lasso Decorative Textile by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is Winner in Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Category, 2013 - 2014.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with Cristina Orozco Cuevas. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by Cristina Orozco Cuevas. |
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