{"id":871,"date":"2011-03-21T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T15:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/?p=871"},"modified":"2014-02-10T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T03:31:12","slug":"871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/2011\/03\/21\/871\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/files\/2011\/03\/olga-knitting1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-876\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/files\/2011\/03\/olga-knitting1-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hand  knit knit knit, go for a run, hand knit knit knit, have a nervous break  down laugh on the couch, and go back to knit! That resumes my week-end!<br \/>\nI am glad that it was sunny, I got to enjoy some of the sun as I ran across Greenpoint\u2019s cool avenues and streets.<br \/>\nIt  is now Monday morning, 8:30 AM, me and my roomate Elin (she also is in  knitwear, final year), are already in the knit lab. We could feel the  pressure as people walked in. We merely have a few weeks left and  crazyness is upon us. Each and every student has to deal with different  sorts of issues. Unfortunately, machines are over-booked for the weeks  to come, and we all have to use our time wisely!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a bit about my inspiration and what I am doing:<\/p>\n<p>Plastic<br \/>\nversus Nature.<br \/>\nIt  all started on a sailing vacation. I kept seeing pop color supermarket  plastic bags on the beaches. I thought it was very interesting to  analyze the paradox &#8220;plastic versus nature&#8221;, \u00a0and how, inevitably,  plastic bags become part of our every day landscape scene. I did some  trials over the Christmas break, and decided that, indeed, I would want  to continue researching and experimenting with plastic.<\/p>\n<p>I  started my research looking at landfills in Cambodia and Brazil. What I  found to be interesting is that, seen from far, plastic landfills can  be very colorful and charming.<br \/>\nI  started to collect all sorts of plastic bags, and denim as well. Cotton  denim, which is a natural fiber, is in fact, a very polluting one.  Entire river ecosystems are being destroyed in china because of waste  denim discharge from the factories.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I have tried to manipulate plastic with knitwear.<br \/>\nI glued plastic bags with liquid latex on top of machine knitted fabric.<br \/>\nI  knitted \u201cplastic jacquards\u201d. \u00a0Jacquard is a machine knit fabric that  has a print knitted in. At school, we can only use a maximum of 4  colors, so I have re-worked photos of plastic garbage, and narrowed down  the colors to 4 on photoshop, and running the image as a jacquard.<br \/>\nI  experimented knitting the actual plastic bags, and introducing denim  and a mixture of natural fibers. The results were pretty awesome and I  decided to make an entire coat from it!<br \/>\nAnd&#8230;I did dozens of other experiments, but no all were successful, so I am only talking about the cool ones :-*<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/files\/2011\/03\/olga-bely-swatches1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-877\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/futureoffashion\/files\/2011\/03\/olga-bely-swatches1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture of some of my swatches, the left one is plastic  turning into denim and other natural fibers, the middle one is a pop  jacquard made from picture of plastic bags, and the one on the right is a  Dubied machine lacey fabric I created last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand knit knit knit, go for a run, hand knit knit knit, have a nervous break down laugh on the couch, and go back to knit! 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