Through continuing my personal experimentation's, I decided to look into both knitwear and digital printing for textile samples. After exploring Kirchhoff's past collections, I got a girly vibe from the majority of his clothes, but also this destroyed element. Using knit as a medium in this sense would be quite appropriate as you can create ladders and loop holes to make it look worn out, or "broken and rewound" to refer to the quote.
I wanted to incorporate 'frills' into my textiles as this was a re-occurring style that Kirchhoff used throughout their collections, so I decided to try to recreate this through knit. In particular using the honeycomb technique but with close together, neat layers to create a folded effect. I found this extremely time consuming on a small sample, meaning it would not be appropriate for this short two week project, however if I had more time then this would be an idea I would like to pursue further. Although using knit in this sense was inconvenient, there were some great outcomes with the textile. For example, through turning down the tension on the knitting machine, tightened the sample enough that it became a tough material. One that could easily be made into a sheet fabric, which could then be sewn into frills by hand.
I used some of both mine and Lena's textile samples within my digital prints, through scanning them into a computer I manipulated and repeating the patterns made. I made sure I kept to our groups chosen colours, or pink, purples, yellows and oranges. Although Meadham Kirchhoff don't tend to use digital printing, I thought I would involve myself in as many different textile techniques as I could in the time limit, to ensure that we had a wide range of samples. As a group we decided not to include my prints for a final garment, as we wanted to keep everything very 'Kirchhoff'.
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