Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques
Fabrics and Outcomes
A course by Giselle Manzano Ramírez , Designer and Artist
Joined December 2019
Joined December 2019
About the video: Fabrics and Outcomes
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn how bleach works and what the most expected outcomes are depending on the fabric and color. ”
In this video lesson Giselle Manzano Ramírez addresses the topic: Fabrics and Outcomes, 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
“ Fabrics and Outcomes Previously, you learned to make a concept board and the importance of sketching. In this lesson, you will learn different bleaching outcomes depending on fabric and color. Firstly, let's talk about bleach. To understand how bleach works, let's talk about fabrics. Fabrics get their dyes from manufacturing and they come from different pigments. There are three pure colors and the rest are the result of these combinations. Bleaching works through oxidation that breaks the chemical bonds of the fabric. The color you see left is the unreacted color. Depending on how the fa...”
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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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