Muslin Wedding

Name: Erin Aubrey
Class: DS 699, Independent Study, Mary Hark
Major: Apparel Design

This paper wedding dress is made entirely out of recycled material. I handmade the paper from muslin scraps collected in UW-Madison’s Apparel Design studios. I wanted to use a material that is typically discarded and disregarded to create something beautiful.   

*Recipient of Best Overall in Show

Architecture in Black and White

Name: Daisy Lopez
Class: Apparel Studio 1
Major: Apparel Design

Zaha Hadid's Beethoven Concert Hall was used as inspiration to create this geometric neoprene and chiffon gown.   

*Recipient of the Best in Textile and Fashion Design

Prairie Cloak

Name: Hannah O'Hare Bennett
Class: DS 501 Sustainable Forms
Major: Textile Design


This piece addressed issues of sustainability in art and design by using mulberry fiber harvested from a local restored prairie, and transforming it into a strong, flexible paper. Mulberry is an invasive species in Wisconsin. It would have been weeded out of the prairie to make room for native plants, so using it for paper was an excellent way to use something that would have been disposed otherwise. / It was important for the piece to refer to the land that it came from, and also to my personal history as a farmer and person interested in environmental issues. This piece can also be used in performance.   

*Recipient of the Honorable Mention

Menage à trois

Name: Sarah Nasgowitz
Class:  DS 699: Independent Study, Holly Easland
Major: Textile Design

The juxtaposition of exposure and privacy that happens when pulling curtains over an open window is the inspiration for this piece.  I have created an exposing bodysuit to be worn underneath the protective overcoat.  The organza is hand felted to look like a lace.  This is then felted to a satin and is enhanced by an embroidery stitch.  There are ribbon structure lines to resemble the panes of a window.  The top of the over piece is all hand sewn flowers which is attached to a pleather vest with a long sheer skirt acting as a curtain over the exposed legs.  

*Recipient of Honorable Mention

Mindscape, Zip Tie Collar

Name: Sarah Nasgowitz
Class: DS 319: Cloth to Clothing, Carolyn Kallenborn
Major: Textile Design


Mindscape - a scene or place uniquely designed by one’s imagination. This collar was conceptualized while imagining a place where nothing is quite as it seems. Mountains made of giant crystal, waterfalls that fall backwards, and tiger fur looking so soft, yet when coming upon it you realize it is rough as dry prickly grass. I took this idea of creating something looking soft and fur like yet really being rough and heavy and decided to create a surface entirely made of zip ties. This surface then turned into a collar in which one can wear and give the effect of wearing or having fur.   

*Recipient of Honorable Mention

Final Project of Off-Loom Construction Module

Name: Jingjing Li
Class: DS501, Introduction to Textile Design
Major: Apparel Design

The beauty of design is the creation of something new with value from things that people already have in the world or thins that are not needed anymore. As a designer, I am very interested in recycling waste materials and giving them a new value. In this design, I used old magazines, which presents the variety of beauty in the world, and made them into colorful fabric. The variety of colors represents for the beauty of diversity. Moreover, the color gradient shows how the differences are actually connected tightly.


*Recipient of Honorable Mention

African Inspired Surface Design, African Beadi

Name: Jacqueline Balgeman
Class: DS226 - Off Loom Construction, Marianne Fairbanks
Major: Interior Architecture


This piece pays homage to the Malagasy Lamba. Drawing inspiration from the traditional geometric patterns from the white on white textile, this beaded piece references a historical textile. The design rediscovers the geometric motif into a modern pattern.

Hand Painting

Name: Ruth Osswald
Class: DS 229, Weaving 1, Marianne Fairbanks
Major: Interior Architecture

This piece is done with immersion dye and hand painting.  I started by immersion dying this 4 yard piece of silk in natural dyes to create an earthy background color. Then, using synthetic dyes I hand painted the pattern.  This piece was inspired by moss growing on trees and the interesting shapes it grows in.

Final Project - Woven Dress

Name: Emily Sugars
Class: DS 229- Weaving I, Marianne Fairbanks
Major: Textile Design

The concept for this handwoven dress came from the desire to do as little cutting and manipulation to the naturally rectangular piece of cloth that a floor loom produces. With this in mind, I made the decision to cut into my cloth only twice- the circular cut out for the neck edge and the sliced off rectangular piece used for the collar. Because of the collar element the otherwise flat, out-of-date woven tunic becomes something contemporary

Weaving 1 Final Project: Cropped Woven Jacket

Name: Allison Kelsey
Class: DS 229, Weaving 1, Marianne Fairbanks
Major: Textile Design

This piece is connected to design because it was patterned and hand-woven on the loom. The fabric was woven into an undulating twill pattern using yellow and grey yarn. I then removed the piece from the loom and patterned it into a modern-style cropped jacket. To finish off the piece, I created a fringe on the bottom of the jacket to give it a bohemian feel. I then took the jacket and dip-dyed the bottom portion in a gold dye bath to create an ómbre effect rising from the ends of the fringe.  

Unconventional Textile Structure, 31:16:43

Name: Aapple Yang
Class: DS 501, Intro to Textile Design, Mary Hark
Major: Apparel Design

31:16:43. Thirty one hours, sixteen minutes, and 43 seconds. This piece was created in that exact time, a laborious process of needle felting wool into individual two inch spheres, pierced together with fishing wire. The fluidity of the piece gives the installer the power of design, each display is different than the last and becomes a reflection of the current aesthetic of the installer, forever changing and never the same. In turn, the installer becomes part of the process, part of the conversation that is being conveyed to the viewer. 

Architecture Project

Name: Jeeyoung Wang
Class: DS 225
Major: Textile Design

Final, Trek

Name: Caitlin Wagner
Class: DS 228, Structural Embellishment I, Amy Keefer
Major: Textile Design

The reclaimed army surplus jacket is the perfect piece for exploring while out and about in nature, the huge pockets are perfect for storing treasures found on the trail and the over-sized silhouette keeps one warm and dry.  The jacket is embroidered with items that one would encounter while out exploring; a scenic view while strolling out by a lake, leaves falling from trees during the autumn season, a beautiful feather, or a seashell from the shoreline. Each is painstakingly rendered through the use of thousands of stitches and hundreds of tiny seed beads.

Nature Project, Entwine

Name: Caitlin Wagner
Class: DS 228, Structural Embellishment I, Amy Keefer
Major: Apparel Design


Entwine is an exploration into the gathering and collecting habits of wildlife, especially that of birds constructing their nests. This knitted piece incorporates this idea by weaving in lengths of different colored yarns into a base yarn. This provides the cowl, which sits high around the neck, with a varied quality and adds to the theme of natural wildlife processes.

Irreversible Forms, Felt Bag

Name: Jacqueline Balgeman
Class: DS226 - Off Loom Construction, Marianne Fairbanks
Major: Textile Design


This piece brings felt, a traditional textile, into modern fashion. Completely constructed from hand felted pieces, using rivets and needle felting, this bag has is perfect for everyday use.

Ikat

Name: Sadie Laing
Class: DS 229, Weaving 1, Marianne Fairbanks
Major: Textile Design


This piece is an indigo dyed ikat weaving. Ikat is a resist dyeing technique done to the fibers before being placed onto the loom. After the fibers are resist dyed they are threaded through the loom, slightly shifting creating the feathered look that is ikat.

Black and White Architecture - Art Deco Progression

Name: Emily Sugars
Class: DS 225, Apparel Design, Holly Easland
Major: Textile Design


The inspiration for this look came from the Art Deco details of the Chrysler Building. These elements are interpreted through the screen printed designs on the sleeves and bodice, the elevating collar, and the angled inset piece on the skirt.

Collection, Nature

Name: Catherine Finedore
Class: DS154 Fabric & Apparel Structures II, Maria Kurtz


Nature is balanced without being symmetric. Its beauty lies in the simplicity of the image without underestimating the complexity of the creation. This piece incorporates a hand drawn and cut pleather embellishment that was designed through the manipulation and combination of tree images. The essence of nature is conveyed through the stiff and airy tulle combined with the more formed structure of the pleather and solid under layer. The balance of which comes from the detail yet fitted form of the bodice leading into the full wisp of the deep green-layered skirt.

Deep Sea Creature

Name: Yeonhee Cheong
Class: DS501, Intro to Textile Design, Mary Hark
Major: Textile Design

This piece experiments 3-dimensionality of crochetting by contrasting with the base of grids and adding beads occasionally to emphasize the height.

Sewol Ensemble

Name: Yeonhee Cheong
Class: DS427 Print & Dye II, Jennifer Angus
Major: Textile Design


Based on the tradition of commemorative Toile as a conversational print, this fabric and the garment try to ignite discourse on the Sewol ferry incident in South Korea, in which hundreds of people couldn't get rescued due to multiple collusive ties.