Textile Study Group
artists and tutors sharing ideas imagination and skills
'How to Manufacture a Tomato Dress' [400 x 300 x 300 cms cauldron from museum collection 100 x 100 x 100 cms] Siân Martin
The choice of the huge cauldron from the museum collection started thoughts on the production-line process of adding heat to change the raw material into a new creation. The raw materials in this piece are fragments of red fabrics and tomato puree metal tubes that fall into the cauldron from above in a curtain of stitched fragments. The new creation is a series of 'size 12' red silk dresses, transformed into shape and size variations by the Japanese steam setting method of Shibori. Sarah Burgess takes a close look.
