Pleating

 From referring to designers such as Junya Watanabe Chau and Jasmin Malik Chau allowed me to get an insight into different designers who love to manipulate materials by pleating it. To introduce the topic we were given the opportunity to hear from understand more about pleating by a pleating company which started in 1925. The machines used today are 100 year old with a very historic background, as pleats during the war were rationed to have 20- 30 pleats per dress.

The company pleats fabric for movies such as Harry Potter, along with shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, and additionally pleat with various fabrics such as silk, organza, polyester  and leather.

This image reminded me of the process in which pleats developed through being a cardboard template were rows and rows of dots are marked down and depending on the type of design you want determines the dots you join up.

Here I have researched designers, love their striking original designs



Fabric sample of pleating that i created using my template.

For the following few images I have demonstrated the fabric samples that the Pleating company had brought in to show us the variety of ways fabric samples can be created. It was fascinating to see how different fabrics worked in different ways when pleated along with the variation of the geometric shapes produced within pleating.

I love the way in which I captured this image as it has alot of dimension and with light shining onto the fabric makes it very eye catching.

 
This reminds me of ripples in the sea, the texture is e3xciting and makes you want to touch the fabric.

This organza fabric is slightly translucent which makes this design very unique and almost reflects a totally different effect.

Here is a cardboard template to produce the pleats, these have to be made exact to ensure the pleats are accurate.

The templates are handmade, and they can take up to 80 hours to make as their can be up to 24,000 individual lines to draw.

Collage of Fabrics

Designer: Issey Miyake

Forrest Jessee