Embroidery

Lastly, we had the choice of adding embroidery to our final product. We learnt to do a few different types of stitching andwe got to use it wherever we wanted on our design.

Screen printing

Once we cut out our Acetate stencils, we used them to do our screen printing. To do screen printing u get screens made of mesh and put the acetate to block the ink where you dont want it to go and material underneath. You put  blobs of paint across the top of the mesh where your stencil and matrial are and you use a tool called a Squeegee...smooth, flat tool made of rubber...which you pull firmly down with the paint across your stencil and material, you do this 3 or 4 times.
Once done, Blow dry and iron until completly dry.

Acetate Sheets

Next we had to draw and cut out our design on Acetate sheets. We used this as a stencil for the paint to go into and onto a piece of material. You can get coloured Acetate butwe only used clear. We could've used 3 different colours and we did 1 layer at a time.

Sketches

Next we had to think and sketch ideas for our product. First we did our Concept sketches: What our rough idea was (about 5 different ideas). Then we did our Developed sketches: picking 1 idea and what colours were going to be used and adding detail. Finaly, our Final Design: drawn to scale, with all details wanted, coloured in and finalised.

Design Brief

We had to all write a Deign brief showing what your going to design, why and how you ere going to do it, What the target marget was for the product and the specifications.

How the Goose is used in the textiles industry.

The goose is used for its down (feathers). The texiles industry use it for products such as pillows, blankets, duvets, mattresses,sleeping bags and winter clthing like coats. Feathers are also used in feather dusters, ornaments and decorations.

Other geese facts:
Live to 20-25 years.
Geese fly in a V formation as it makes them travel faster.
Geese love water, rain and cold weather, they dont like to much heat.
People hunt Geese mostly just for fun.

First-research- Finn, Matt, Lewenna and Paige.

During the first few weeks of Soft tech we researched our animal used in the textiles industry. Our animal used is the Goose. We have all got some reasearch on how it is used in the textiles industry.