In collaboration with New York based artist Larry Rushing, this dress was made using fine art painting, digital printing, fashion draping, and sewing by hand and machine. Reams’ work is inspired by color, the female body form and Rushing’s paintings. Rushing’s paintings are inspired by his belief that femininity as the center of creativity and […]
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In collaboration with New York based artist Larry Rushing, this dress was made using fine art painting, digital printing, fashion draping, and sewing by hand and machine. Reams’ work is inspired by color, the female body form and Rushing’s paintings. Rushing’s paintings are inspired by his belief that femininity as the center of creativity and
Utilizing fine art painting, digital printing, fashion draping, and sewing by hand and machine this collaborative dress was made by Della Reams and Larry Rushing. Reams’ work is inspired by color, the female body form and Rushing’s paintings. Rushing’s paintings are inspired by his interpretation of femininity as the center of creativity, and the improvisational
The surrealistic imagery and harmonious color sense featured in my collaborator, Larry Rushing’s, paintings inspired me to develop a series of digitally-printed fabrics, which then generated a series of related dress designs. The integration of these 2-D design into three-dimensional garments was my design challenge – to form a beautiful 2-D design into a creative
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Smoking Jacket and Skirt – Utilizing an art photograph of a Moroccan man smoking for inspiration, a motif was designed on a black and white grid and put into repeat with DesignaKnit software. Using humor and two-color patterning I made fabric while simultaneously making the garment. A full width of two-color patterned fabric was then
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Houndstooth Hound Dress – Using a photograph of my dog, Dia, and a black and white grid, a motif was designed and put into repeat with DesignaKnit software. Experimenting with humor and two-color patterning, this fabric was created while simultaneously making a dress. A maximum width of patterned fabric was then knitted to the dress
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Maryam Dress – After seeing the Graphic Design Monogram Project results on the walls of VCUQatar, I realized the motifs, which represent a stylized version of each designer’s name in Arabic, were perfect for textile designs. With permission from the students, I decided to recreate them as knitted fabric designs. The student who contributed to
Hand stitching techniques include quilting, cording, free-form embroidery and French knots. “Body Map” started with an original painting by Larry Rushing. A small portion of the painting was digitally printed onto a woven cotton blend fabric and layered with batting and a backing. Made in 2020.
Shibori is a Japanese form of tie-dye. My work features multiple-colored dyes applied one at a time, using various items to resist areas in each layer of color: including wrapping on a pole with string, folding and stitching and/or clamping with various shaped objects before dyeing each color. Some are pressed after drying and some
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Asian Allusion is made from an original jacquard woven fabric that features color mixing of cotton and rayon yarns in a variety of plain, satin and twill weaves. The imagery was inspired by colorful Chinese herbal medicine packaging. This wall hanging is 51” high by 56” wide, hung on a wooden dowel through a casing
