Designing Handicraft Garments from Scratch
Influences
A course by Ofelia & Antelmo , Textile Art Workshop
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson I will take a tour of artists and projects that have helped me shape my visual language, understand why I do things, and choose the lifestyle I want to have.”
In this video lesson Ofelia & Antelmo addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing Handicraft Garments from Scratch. Learn how to design, embroider, and join handmade textile pieces.
Partial transcription of the video
“INFLUENCES In the last lesson I talked a little about who I am and what I do, Now I will share a thread of influence that made me have the style that I now use in my work. The first one I want to share is the great Mondrian. If they didn't know his name, they probably saw his work. He is a painter that its boom was at the beginning of the last century. I love this book because it's like a tour in all his artistic evolution. In school, he never really stood out, his brushstrokes were supersencillas. I tried to express the landscape in the traditional. I love it because he is a painter outsid...”
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Course summary for: Designing Handicraft Garments from Scratch
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Embroidery, Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing

Ofelia & Antelmo
A course by Ofelia & Antelmo
Ofelia & Antelmo is a project created by Gabriela Martínez—designer and textile artist—in 2017 that started out as a contemporary textile art proposal presented in two formats that go hand in hand: textile art and wearable art.
Textile art is the starting point of Gabriela's process, in which she explores all her ideas for colors, textures, stitches, and effects, then seeks to bring them to life in handmade garments with wear-resistant finishes and stitches. Her main motivation is that quality prevails over quantity, and so she creates pieces that can be inherited as a form of protest at the speed at which the world moves today.
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