Illustrations

Experimental fashion illustrations.

Out of the Rag Bag...

I haven't put very much about my new project on here so here goes a whole load of it! 

 Here are a few example patterns I've been working on... there are more on my website! www.jaimegreenly.com

Out of the rag bag was born out of my ever increasing pile of scrap fabrics. I began to apply the discarded patterns to newly drawn shapes and motifs and then digitally manipulate them into bright, colourful kaleidoscopic designs; a kind of updated patchwork.

The work is intended to highlight the wastage associated with the textile and fashion industries.  Of the 1 million tonnes of fabric thrown away each year only 25% are actually recycled. By using ‘readymade’ patterns in my work it shows the abundance of fabric already present in the design world that often do just go to waste. Reproducing the patterns digitally also leaves the actual fabrics to be recycled in other ways.