Inspired by their biological counterpart, and conceived as 'muscle textile,' the masks are bundled, multi-material structures, providing formal and structural integrity, as well as movement, to the face and neck.
"Inspired by their biological counterpart, and conceived as 'muscle textile,' the masks are bundled, multi-material structures, providing formal and structural integrity, as well as movement, to the face and neck," says the Mediated Matter Group.
Today Ethnotek purchases handmade textiles directly from the villages they are conceived in at the exact market rate that the village charges; these fabrics are then used as the interchangeable front panel of their packs.
Although it stands on its own and was separately conceived, "A Woman's Hand: Designing Textiles in America, 1945-1969" athehe Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology makes a wonderful complement to the Bard exhibition.
Of course, textile design is not the reason this book was conceived.
Developed and conceived over five years, Time as Fabric is executed in the form of vast and visually-enthralling textiles.
Housed in textile factories that date back to the late 1800's, CaSa was conceived by renowned artist and activist Francisco Toledo to become the first sustainable and environmentally conscious cultural center in Latin America.
In 1831 he conceived the safety fuse: a core of black powder tightly wrapped in textiles, one of the most important of which was jute yarn.
"He went through so many phases of design -- textiles, furniture, silver, glass, architecture, even now to conceiving at an urban scale.
