Since the last session of Breathe I'd made a good process on my cloak. After relentlessly cutting shapes of fabric, net, fur, leather and suede I had managed to cover the cloak in a way which resembled the design but as my own interpretation. The next this I had to tackle was the fastenings and shape.
In the design the character is swooping the cloak upwards, revealing the inside slightly. When looking at this feature and my creation so far it looked to heavy and drowning for the wearer to be able to do this. So I decided first of all to slash into one side to create a slightly slanted shape for ease of moveability and to lighten it. The next thing to consider was the ways in which the wearer would control the cape. Previously as a group, me, Kim and Naomi had discussed that each cloak would have a series of elasticated arm bands. This way the wearer would have complete control of its movements and would also create extra security of staying fastened.
As the in the design the cloak is quite heavy looking and more closed over than the others I decided that eyelets / tie rope would be a nice way to finish it and for it to be fastened. This is the result...
The only thing left that I want to do with it is to stitch down some of the fabric sections more and to add some barnacles which were previously made in the Breathe Club sessions.
This wasn't the only Breathe work I managed to produce this week. For this part of the unit it had be stated as a requirement that we needed to produce a bod of work for assessment. A lot of us in the group were very worried and distressed about the content/ extent of the 'body of work'. As a result had individual tutorial with our tutors to come to an understanding of what we needed to produce for assessment. It had been decided that along side this cloak I'd need to make a second smaller cloak which another girl was meant to make but hadn't had the time. This is the design...
From the design I could see that this cloak was a lot smaller in length and in width; only going half way across the back. After establishing this I drew up a pattern, similar to the last one but half the size,cut it out of fabrics available, machine stitched it together and then took it to the dye room to dye it the same rusty colours as the other cloaks. Once dried I began work on it straight away. Having done it previously I was fully aware of how lengthy it could be to made such a patch work style cloak. However this time I came up with a systematic/ time efficiently cutting method for the patches in order to use my time left effectively.
This is the result at the end of the first day...
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