October 2015. 4 days in Barcelona for my birthday! 4 days visiting mainly few of Antoni Gaudi's architectural works, immersed in Colors and Creative inspiration: Park Guell, Casa Batllo, Sagraga Familia...
Back home, I was inspired to create something by using mainly materials I already had, in order to keep the Gaudi-esque spirit of upcycling.
I decided to challenge myself to use a large stock of bigger seeds beads that I rarely use, to try and use all of the stock. Because of their size and because I never made one before, I imediately thought of a clutch bag.
This was a smooth organic creative process in which, from the Barcelona moodbaord pictures -tiles, lots of tiles, colorful mosaics of colorful broken tiles-, I easily visualised how I wanted my finished bag to look like: colorful tiles!
Part one was the beadweaving of plenty of tiles to form the front, the "focal point" of the bag.
Part two was the assembly of the remaining materials, keeping in mind the spirit of reuse of material that is ubiquitous in Gaudi's work: jean fabric from an old trousers, remaining of an african wax fabric (that I covered in vinyl to make the bag partially waterproof and add the interest of texture contrast against the jean), cork material (from neighbouring Portugal) for the back of the bag -to keep the Mediteranean spirit up-, satin fabric (from a curtain) to make the inside, a sturdy piece of material to add rigidity and shape the bag, a large antique chain...
Part three, the making. One week...
I decided to challenge myself to use a large stock of bigger seeds beads that I rarely use, to try and use all of the stock. Because of their size and because I never made one before, I imediately thought of a clutch bag.
This was a smooth organic creative process in which, from the Barcelona moodbaord pictures -tiles, lots of tiles, colorful mosaics of colorful broken tiles-, I easily visualised how I wanted my finished bag to look like: colorful tiles!
Part one was the beadweaving of plenty of tiles to form the front, the "focal point" of the bag.
Part two was the assembly of the remaining materials, keeping in mind the spirit of reuse of material that is ubiquitous in Gaudi's work: jean fabric from an old trousers, remaining of an african wax fabric (that I covered in vinyl to make the bag partially waterproof and add the interest of texture contrast against the jean), cork material (from neighbouring Portugal) for the back of the bag -to keep the Mediteranean spirit up-, satin fabric (from a curtain) to make the inside, a sturdy piece of material to add rigidity and shape the bag, a large antique chain...
Part three, the making. One week...
Now working on finishing my McQueen-inspired project!
