A obra de Margaret Mee e sua analogia na criação de estampas para lenços femininos

Abstract

This monograph aims at developing patterns for women's scarves using, as reference, flowers documented by Botanical illustrator Margaret Mee. Flora is widely used as a source as reference to create printings for textile design and, currently, the market offers a wide range of products and surfaces depicting such subject. Although they are commonly found, they are often represented figuratively. The objective of this research is to precisely explore the analogy of images with manual techniques, in an attempt to distance themselves from the figurative representation of nature and cause a fresh look at it. Starting from the desire to propose something different, out of figuration and the reproduced image, aiming to provoke the audience to develop a more interpretive and less hard look, by applying the creations to a collection of women's scarves. Today with technological advances, the possibilities for treatments in textile surface are numerous. It is possible to work the drawing in two-dimensional surfaces, as well as to explore visual textures and depth, among other techniques. The present project focuses on the creative process for the development of the textile surface design, an area in which, increasingly, digital resources excel on manual work and in which professionals gradually use previously made elements and references already existing, letting go of genuine processes of creation. For the execution and development of the present research, it was decided to print from sublimation due to fidelity in color printing and for being a process with low level of environmental pollution and material waste.