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Emma Jones
Fashion & Textile Design BA Hons

Glasgow School of Art

Specialisms: Textiles / Embroidery /

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Emma Jones

Emma Jones ArtsThread Profile

First Name: Emma

Last Name: Jones

Specialisms: Textiles / Embroidery

Sectors: Fashion/Textiles/Accessories / Fashion/Textiles/Accessories

My Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

University / College: Glasgow School of Art

Course / Program Title: Fashion & Textile Design BA Hons

About

I am a Glasgow based textile designer specialising in embroidery, recently graduating from the Glasgow School of Art. My design practice and recent projects focus on landscape as an ever-present part of our lives and seeks to translate the sublime details of it into embroidery that excites and elevates the ordinary. With a passion for intricate embroidery, time consuming processes and slow design principles, my designs focus on bespoke textiles using mostly natural fibres that hold a story for the wearer. Receiving a student bursary award from The Textile Society this year and previously working as an archive intern for Karen Nicol, my creative practice has become diverse and I like to combine processes and techniques together to make textiles that can form a language of both craft and emotion.
primary research - my project was heavily inspired by the landscapes i explored during my research trip to the outer hebrides and the isle of skye in scotland.
primary research - curated collection of rocks, shells and glassware that acts as a moodboard for the collection
primary research - a collection of colour, form and texture that has inspired my textiles
primary research experimenting with primary research photos printed onto acetate and overlaid to create rich colour and texture.
a selection of secondary and contextual research
a selection of my research into colour inspired from manipulating the acetate photo collages. the colour palettes attempt to translate the blurring and merging of colours in landscape.
a selection of my research into colour inspired from manipulating the acetate photo collages. the colour palettes attempt to translate the blurring and merging of colours in landscape.
RESEARCH IMAGES TAKEN INTO DESIGN CONCEPTS
a selection of drawings and collages using painted and found paper to translate my primary research.
a selection of drawings and collages using painted and found paper to translate my primary research.
a selection of drawings and collages using painted and found paper to translate my primary research.
technical sample exploring a fringing technique with bead embellishment inspired by textures of heather and moss
technical samples exploring combining smocked fabric with paint and digital embroidery
technical samples exploring shirring and smocked fabric combined with 3d digital embroidery
TECHNICAL SAMPLES EXPERIMENTING WITH FABRIC MANIPULATION TECHNIQUES
a selection of final samples using freehand irish machine embroidery and fabric manipulation.
final sample - white shadow work embroidery on silk and cotton organdie
FINAL SAMPLE - FABRIC MANIPULATION ON SILK ORGANZA EMBELLISHED WITH BRAID AND FEATHER
final sample - freehand irish machine embroidery on cotton organdie, exploring moss and lichen textures found on rocks in the outer hebrides.
final sample - shadow work embroidery on silk organza
final sample - white shadow work embroidery on silk and cotton organdie
final samples – exploring moss textures and rock formations
final sample - shadow work embroidery on silk organza inspired by rock formations on the isle of skye
final sample - freehand irish machine embroidery on cotton organdie, exploring moss and lichen textures found on rocks in the outer hebrides.
visualisation of how the collection could be commercialised for a couture fashion context
visualisation of how the collection could be commercialised for a couture fashion context
visualisation of how the collection could be commercialised for a couture fashion context
visualisation of how the collection could be commercialised for a couture fashion context

Eating Flowers

Specialisms:

Textiles for Fashion Embroidery

Eating Flowers is a work in progress textile collection that considers the concept of the sublime in landscape and the tradition of Celtic Twilight and the inherent romanticism attached to certain landscapes. I use embroidery to explore the crossovers between design, sensory experience, emotions and memory. The documenting of my trip to remote Scottish islands led me to develop Eating Flowers as a intersection between my interests in slow design principles, favouring slow or detailed processes of embroidery, viewing textiles as objects of longevity, and an investigation in marrying couture fashion with sensory interaction and emotional meaning. My designs focused on illustrative texture, material qualities of translucency, opacity and intense stitch work. Colour for the collection was inspired through the tonal layering and inversion of the shades of landscape in my drawing, an emotional rather than literal translation of colour. I visualise my textiles within fashion, adorning the body as a new landscape for textures, structures, colours and translucencies to play over and interact with.