Craft As Ceremony
MA Textile Design, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (2021)
This project aims to visualise observations of surroundings that represented as cultural heritage in contemporary textiles, using the craft of stencil dyeing. With the rituals involved in the making process, inviting viewers to discover the sense of ceremony from everyday objects while taking the journey with her on traditional craft.
In 2019, I started focusing on stencil dyeing, Katazome as a long-term project. I found there are only a few young people learning it in Taiwan. The starting point is to revive stencil dyeing, Katazome and go deeper in its possibility.
2020-2021
My research is on traditional craft, the rituals involved in the making process and the ceremony intrinsic to crafting.
The concept is the visualisation of surroundings represented as cultural heritage in contemporary textiles using the craft of stencil dyeing.
Craft is the artform through which I express myself. I collected from people descriptions and photos of ritualised objects in order to find out their thoughts on their sense of ceremony.
I apply stencil dyeing as a medium to create patterns on textiles based on these objects. I want to show that even small objects have importance in our lives and are part of our cultural heritage. Moreover, a piece of textile to show the craft of the making process in order to introduce the process of stencil dyeing and patterns embodied in the rituals and point out everyday life can be crafted positively by yourself.
Small objects
Vase: stencil myrobalan dyed calico fabric, 7.5 x 7.5 x 19.5 (cm) - left
Vases: stencil tea dyed calico fabric, 6 x 6 x 11.5 (cm) - middle
Have a tea cup: stencil myrobalan dyed calico fabric, 4 x 4 x 5.5 (cm) - right
Craft your own day
: Expect the one day, when it is a special day.
stencil tea dyed calico fabric, 264 x 32 (cm)
The fabric print design illustrates a day, a year as four seasons and made in four
pieces of textiles .
