====== Textile as Scaffold ======

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**Assignment**

The assignment for this week is to make a prototype of a technical textile application using one or more different technique:

  * Composites and biocomposites
  * Crystallization
  * Fabric formwork
  * Concrete or Plaster Casting
  * Wood + Textile Composite

And the materials needed are:

  * Bio Resin and Resin Borax,
  * Rochelle salt, Potasium sodium, Epsom Salt, Sugar,
  * Concrete and Plaster
  * Veneer Wood Fabric White Glue Vacuum bags or vacuum machine

**How will it be evaluated?**

-Documentation on webpage and physical prototype. -Record the process and make a stop motion.

===== Textile Scaffold =====

==== Composites ====

As I did FabAcademy program in the past, I have made different composites. I used vacuum bagging. First, I designed a simple 3D model, then milled it in the shopbot in polyestirene. For the fabric, I used linen and [[:fabricademy2017:students:nuria.robles:entropy_resin|entropy ]][[:fabricademy2017:students:nuria.robles:entropy_resin|resin]]

Here is an scheme of the process

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After the whole night into the vacuum bagging the piece is very rigid.

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==== Wood+Textile Composite ====

This is the first technique I decided to work with. First I took balsa wood and did glue it over denim fabric

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Then, I played with cherry veneer and a red fabric, glued together using vacuum bags [[https://vimeo.com/242749848|video]]

I love the mixture between wood and fabric, so I decided to test other wood sheets like this one of cherrywood

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==== Crystallization ====

I choose the table salt recipe and got a very poor experiment. Also did try with sugar but the result was a bid candy-glass :(

|{{:fabricademy2017:students:nuria.robles:week5_textile_scaffold:cristal_1.png?nolink&480x300}} |{{:fabricademy2017:students:nuria.robles:week5_textile_scaffold:cristal_2.png?nolink&480x300}} |

=== Crystallization ===

I did let a piece if denim a salted solution during the whole night. In the morning, the fabric looked like brilliant cardboard. I watched the result with a microscope to see if there were crystals formed.

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|  |Microscope Crystals on denim fabric |  |

==== Stop Motion ====

{{vimeo>242749848?800}}

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