A working design

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 19, 2013

I went up to see Sharon yesterday, bringing a stack of designs. We went through them, made some revisions, and eventually came up with this design to work with: It is, as they say, “an artist’s conception”, and since my sketching skills are rudimentary, I thought I’d elaborate. Structure: The bodice is pieces of handwoven [...]

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Design analysis, Design Poker

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 10, 2013

Yesterday, after flipping through several hundred photos of couture dresses, I selected fourteen that struck my eye. They weren’t designs I would want to use, necessarily, but each of them had one or more features that drew my attention. So this morning I went through them and did a bit of design analysis. I had [...]

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Sample warp

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 9, 2013

Yesterday morning, I got up early and spent three solid hours working on the sample warp. In those three hours, I managed to thread, sley, tie on, debug, and weave about a foot worth of warp. (Don’t look so impressed – there were only ~360 threads in the sample, so quick and easy to do.) [...]

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Invoking the Muse

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 6, 2013

I started design work on my next phoenix project this morning. Right now there are only three sure things about it: it’s going to be evening wear, it’s going to have phoenixes, and it’s going to be faaaaaaabulous, dahhhling, fabulous. I’m fairly certain it will have a bell-shaped silhouette (think “big floofy skirt”), and that [...]

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Two roads diverged in a wood…

By Tien Chiu | Published: May 3, 2013

…and I took both of them. I’ve decided to weave off the yardage for that fabulous garnet wool/cashmere/Lurex yarn, and work on the design for Phoenix Rising, all at once. Since the book proposal is out at the editor’s for a week or so, I’ll have some free time to devote to both projects. I’ve [...]

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