Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques
Materials and Tools
A course by Giselle Manzano Ramírez , Designer and Artist
Joined December 2019
Joined December 2019
About the video: Materials and Tools
Overview
“In this lesson, I will outline the materials needed for this course. Household bleach will be used for both the reverse tie dye shibori techniques and printmaking. We will use everyday objects to create the surface design and the embellishments of the garment. ”
In this video lesson Giselle Manzano Ramírez addresses the topic: Materials and Tools, which is part of the Domestika online course: Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques. Combine innovative reverse dye techniques with unconventional objects to create unique, sustainable garments in your own personal style.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Materials and Tools In the previous lesson, you learned about me and my influences. In this lesson, I'll walk you through the materials, tools, and techniques that we'll use for our final project. The first technique we'll explore is reverse dye or bleaching. We'll create texture in our fabric and use a garment as our canvas. Our second technique is printmaking with everyday objects. We'll use objects that reinforce and represent our concept. Our third and last technique is unconventional surface embellishment. We'll enhance our design by giving it texture and movement. Before we start, l...”
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Course summary for: Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques
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Category
Craft, Design, Fashion -
Areas
Fashion Design, Textile Design, Textile Dyeing, Upcycling
Giselle Manzano Ramírez
A course by Giselle Manzano Ramírez
Giselle Manzano Ramírez is a Colombian designer and artist based in Brooklyn. As a child, she was always creative, excelling in art at school and designing for friends and family from a young age. She went on to study graphic design and visual communication, and later fell in love with fashion in New York City. She then started redesigning her own clothes before going on to become a fashion stylist and curator.
Since then, Giselle has combined her love for both graphic design and fashion to design window displays, visual merchandising, lookbooks, branding, and advertising for vintage fashion boutiques. Through working with ReFashion Week 2020, she collaborated with the NYC Department of Sanitation and DonateNYC, and has given conferences and workshops at Pratt Institute, among others. As a graphic designer, her clients include Condé Nast, Candy Pratts Price (Vogue), and the Colombian Embassy in NYC. She also collaborates with emerging artists as part of her mission to empower people through fashion.
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