Mervi Halonen
 
  BOWL-SETTINGTEXTILES. Desingning setting products with ceramics student  
  Textile Design :   1773/2001
 
 
Image: Mervi Halonen
 
 

The final project work is a co-operation project made by a textile- and a ceramicstudent. The aim is to design compatible textiles with the barrels designed by the ceramics student Maarit Hietanen. The designwork is based on an interview research which was carried out in three stores in Kuopio: at the department of kitchenware-, glass- and porcelain of Sokos department store, the crafts- and designstore Oma Tupa and the giftstore Sininen Silta. The research mapped out the supply of setting textiles and their users. On the basis of the research results was defined a fictional consumer and were chosen the products that would be designed. The image of the fictional consumer led the aim of the designing into a simple and timeless style. Table mats were chosen in to the setting textiles collection. From barrels plates were chosen to the designing. The colourīs effects to the setting and atmosphere and the combinations of different colours in food, barrels and textiles were studied to ease the selection of colours in setting textiles collection. The designing work was done together and independently. All the big decisions, like materials, weaves, figure compositions and colours were made together. The independent working was based on the mutual decisions. In the designing of textiles the starting point was to combine smooth and thick materials. On the basis of this idea were designed simple forms with smooth ground and thick figures. A ball-shaped form was chosen to the table mats and technical solutions were searched by weaving. After many experiments the figured weave was regarded at the best. The chosen materials were the combination of paperyarn and linen. After the final material and figure composition solutions the colours to setting textiles collection were decided to be black, blue, green and red. To make the textiles and barrels compatible, the same colours were chosen to the barrels, too. Finally was deliberated the fictive image of the setting products and the future which was described with a collage.

 
  Keywords: 1773:1 setting textiles, table mat, figured weave 1773:2 figured compositions  
  Right of use: To be studied in the place where deposited. Can be freely copied in the place where deposited.  
  Number, file/product, number of pages:
1773:1 folder,A4 report, 115 pages 1773:2 portfolio A2 sketches, 4 pieces
 
  Number, what parts, where deposited:
1773:3 portfolio, A4.in makerīs possession 1773:4 box, A3.in makerīs possession
 
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