Studies from the field of manual design techniques.
Materials such as colored paper, nonwovens, masking tape and yarn - that's all you need to create a small design collection. While playing with possibilities, the ideas for the next piece came naturally.

These studies serve as a design basis for various textile production techniques and can be continued as digital design grids. Based on design series of this kind, I developed the workshop "Manual Design Techniques" for teaching my students. Simple, everyday materials are transformed into surface designs with a serial character.
The requirement to stick to one technique per series and a limitation of materials, fosters creative thinking as students test several variations of the same type. The principle of repeating the similar, trains playful modification and is the starting point of the series within the creative context.

Subsequently, in the "Digital Image Processing" module, digital and textile simulations are developed out of these sketches. In the "Digital Textile Systems" module experimental surface designs of this kind are used to develop design ideas for jacquard and dobby woven fabrics.

​

Click here to see some knitted samples out of my entangled series.

​

Stiched | 2021 | Mixed Material Techniques | 20cm x 15cm

Cut Out | 2020 | Clay Paper and Tracing Paper | 20cm x 20cm

​