Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques
Other Techniques and Applications
A course by Giselle Manzano Ramírez , Designer and Artist
Joined December 2019
About the video: Other Techniques and Applications
Overview
“Here we’ll explore other reverse tie-dye techniques, as well as how to expand your knowledge and take these new design skills into other applications beyond fashion. ”
In this video lesson Giselle Manzano Ramírez addresses the topic: Other Techniques and Applications, 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
“ Other Techniques and Applications Previously, you learned how to put an outfit together. In this lesson, I'll show you some other bleaching techniques and applications for you to explore. Let's start with reverse dye, adding color. Here, we see besides subtracting color from the fabric, we can also add color. After subtracting color from the fabrics, you can apply dye of any color. That way, you can create different colorful compositions. Use any of the techniques that we learned to add color. Another bleaching technique I'll show you is reverse ice tie-dye with bleach crystals. Here, we ...”
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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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