For this project we have been asked to create a series of repeat outcomes inspired by the Norwich Shawls using digital processes.
Due to copyright restrictions I am unable to use any of the images from the Norwich Shawls in this blog.
My first thoughts where paisley, flowers natural forms oo good I really enjoy creating natural forms, more thought oh dear maybe that’s a bit comfortable? Should I try something different ? Further thoughts – our accounts package creates patterns using statistics could I use data to create patterns ? Then followed a few days of how do I do this ? I don’t know how ? Hours spent on Google researching how to create patterns using programmes, no luck all to complicated. Also spent hours worrying about how I cant use CAD programmes didn’t do very much but just spent ages thinking about it all.
Visited our company web designer who very kindly gave me loads of info, encouraged me to get on with it ! Hence the name of the website ! Also to download Illustrator and Photoshop he also created this web prescence for me and made me practice posting things. The digital world looks a bit more friendly : )
Well Illustrator and Photoshop downloaded, understanding Photoshop book borrowed from the library off we go … I have to admit I have found it hard going but determined to try I borrowed my partners laptop, found tutorials on YouTube and my ipad to Google the tools the tutorials told me to use and I was able to create a series of bar graphs using data I had collected from the Study Centre in the Castle Museum.
The colours in each shawl had been categorised using the British Colour Council Dictionary of Colour Standards, each colour has an identification number . I was able to look through the copy of the British Colour Dictionary held at the Castle Study Centre (exactly the same as the photograph shown below)
Each shawl in the Castle Collection has been categorised for the castle records and the colours matched with their BCC number. I selected 1 A4 folder containing the records of 30 shawls dated from 1910 to 1959 and recorded all the details,
Museum Number, Catalogue Number, Date, Type, with design characteristics, Size, Yarn, Weave, Selvedge, Fringe, BCC numbers, Manufacturer, Family Association, Any other characteristics.
By inputting these details into Illustrator I was able to create graphs .
