High Tide
Deeply inspired by the fascinating water textures I captured and collected over the years during my travels, along with Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Seascapes (1980-2002) photography series, I decided to infuse the ideas into my design and draw a knitwear collection.
High Tide is a memory. It is also a thread that led me to build the collection beyond paper and into real life, design and develop a series of swatches, create a prototype using re-purposed materials, and finally, use Stoll M1 software to program and knit a fully-fashioned sweater from the collection.
Here is the journey.
The calmness and the rapids, the high tides and low tides, the ever-changing texture of the body and the surface... How fascinating, the way light softly meets water then glides away... I wish to pass on these gentle and sophisticated feelings to people. This moment right now is seen and felt, then it vanishes, gone forever. High or low, glorious or ordinary, how insignificant it seems...
Every drop of water soothes a drought somewhere, somehow. The life-long chase for high tides ends in the calm water and tender sea.
Journal
Swatch Developments with Stoll
12GG Double Jacquard
Original photograph inspiration.
Zoomed symbol view on Stoll M1.
Stoll M1 generated full back view of fabric. (DJ with Twill Back)
Single pattern repeat designed with Kaledo in Spring colorway.
Knitted final swatch.
12GG Tuck and Miss Stitch
Designed pattern to be used as the bitmap for programming. (First version)
Stoll M1 programming screen view. (Left: designed fabric. Right: fully fashioning shaping progress. )
Final swatches in two colorways.
Sweater Development
Prototype
Sweater with funnel neck, 1x1 RIB on set-in sleeve connected to S.J. cuff with jersey roll on edge.
(Cut-and-sew proto made from recycled second-hand sweaters. )
Proto Techpack
Final Garment
Sequins with glass beads along the armholes.
Hand-beaded trim along RIB bottoms and sweater sweep.
Yarn: Biagoli 2/26 Cashwool (donated by Biagoli), Lurex 1/127
Final Garment Techpack
Other High Tide Inspired Swatches
Swatch #1
Swatch #1 Stoll M1 module view.
Swatch #2
Swatch #2 detail symbol view. (Aran+Cable)
Swatch #3
Swatch #3 Design repeat symbol view.