Waag Society Fablab Amsterdam

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This project was designed to challenge the embroidery machine we have in the fablab. I was testing how I could align designs side by side in the frame and also embed conductive material in embroidery.

I designed this piece in illustrator, about 37 x 25 cm (h x w) in size.

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This project intended to explore if Janome can embroider classical drawings. I found this artwork by Carl Larsson, who created in 1904, I really like the lines, the way the artist rendered the small event of  a mom brushing daughter's hair, probably in the morning or every morning. This drawing also looks very poetic, I am trying to explore the embroidery machine to find out if the rigid modern machine can reinterpret the poetic feeling of the classical drawing.This is the drawing:

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The picture we set out to reproduce in print and embroidery is called "Control room" and depicts creatures focused on their factory tasks inside a pipe structure. The original vector image was created with Adobe Illustrator.

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We explored the combination of print and machine embroidery on recycled hospital textiles. Instead of focusing on a particular textile item, we experimented generally how to create impressions from different textures. The picture we worked on consisted of creatures embedded within a playful pipe structure.

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The embroidered bib.

We used the embroidery machine to make a bib with an image and text.
When kids don't want to eat, parents try to force them with the referral to things like busses, planes or whatever.
We combined the saying with the bib so the kids already start to eat without saying anything.

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thread tensity:2,5

Since I wanted really bright shiny colours I got my embroidery thread at schouten located at the raadhuisstraat Amsterdam (http://www.schoutenzigzag.nl/) a store specialized in embroidery machines and thread that has a LOT of colours to choose from. The jpeg I embroidered is included (font: Swamp witch from dafont.com)

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How to solve your problems of embroidery on stretchy fabrics?
If you happen to have a small logo or image with thin lines and you want to have columns on stretchy fabrics. Using default parameters in embird will probably end up like this...

To avoid all the messy stitches and frustrations, you need to read this article.

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This is an experiment of mimicing the blackwork embroidery on Janome memory craft 200E. To realize the effect of the work, you will have to prepare jpg or tiff file in softwares like Photoshop or Illustrator then generate stitches in Embird. 

Step 1: Preparing the file in Illustrator - export as tiff of jpg file
           To make it easier for selections in embird, fill design with different color

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Intro
As an introduction with both the Janome embroidery machine and the friendly people at fablab I wanted to see how a simple logo would transfer to a piece of cloth, using the Janome embroidery machine.

Preparation
As preparation I read the tutorials that are on the Fablab website:

http://fablab.waag.org/content/embroidery-janome-memory-craft-200e