Degree Show 2024
David Nathan Neville Fox
BA textile Design
This body of textile is inspired by Sunny Bank Mills and it’s Museum and Archive, which was once a working textile mill based outside of Leeds, closing in 2008. Now a place for heritage and arts, the 3D woven collection hope to capture historical details and memories of the workers from the mill. The Warper woven collection uses papers, and other yarns to create structural or self folding cloth. Which links back to the architecture and heritage of the mill that play around with light and space.
Whilst Twister is focused on motifs from tools of a worker in the mill and more a commercial design approach for lampshades. Fox’s visual studies explore the archive in more detail with a focus on a Warp Twister who worked in the mill, his tools and knowledge as well as noting this new age of textiles and what has been lost since the 1960s. In response handmade tools out of found objects were made in response to the workers having to pass down or make there own tools. Structural weave and and chaining were created to link to the mills processes and weaving.
This work is the work shown in the degree show, mainly showcasing 3D Woven textiles that play around with light and space, tools based on a mill worker and chains based on the weaving process.
These two paper woven silk and steel works play around with self folding cloth and structure that would be architectural cloth for Sunny Bank Mills to bring the heritage of the Archive into public spaces.
This is the Final Small tool collection that is based on a worked at Sunny Bank Mills, who was a Warp Twister. Fox learnt that they had to make there own tools and tools that idea into make objects for thinking, combing weaving parts and wood.