onsdag 30 mars 2011

First thing to add

We store a lot of old fabrics at home, I went out to check if anything really could be called waste, and be used as a first T-shirt Chair part...
...and I came back with The favorite jeans - the-once-far-to-expensive-but-oh-so-nice-Lindeberg-slim-cut, that I wore till they couldn't take more, then coloured yellow and they became my 'designer-outfit-jeans' :-) (the colouring was a success - the mix of the pale shifting blue jean with the yellow creating a yellow and green mix...!), and then wore till they virtually fell into pieces...
I am now glad I saved them...! Here they are ready to make a first milestone:
My first memory to weave into furniture

The grid of the story

The first T-shirt Chair frame from production,
ready to be roles out by Green Furniture Sweden
Test weaving with with sofa fabric leftovers
Together with Maria Westerberg, the designer of the T-shirt Chair, I visited Glimåkra in southern Sweden today - the place where T-Shirt Chairs will be produced (or rather woven, stuffed, upholstered or however you decribe somthing new like this).

Task: Examining the first production T-shirt Chair frame + testing upholstry with fabric waste from sofas + instructing on how to weave a chair and how to make nice colour mix from waste fabric...

Nice colour mix!
Outcome: The pieces of fabric stay in place due to that the fabric waste here comes in full role width (usually 140cm), sizes for different fabric types set, and Peter nailed to dig into being a T-shirt Chair artist - choosing nice fabrics and weaving the chairs in production.

Other outcome: Well there were two frames made, I ended up with the faulty one (too stiff and heavy) in the back of my car...
...and now it stands here on my living room floor asking for attention...  :-)
Fabric waste to use