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Ecoflex Borax, rochelle salt, potasium sodium. UV resin Concrete

Each student can use a different technique to make a prototype of a technical textile application

I choose to use HandMade Paper as material, or use the cotton pulp to construct my forms, using the fabric as Scaffold and mold to the final form.

Cotton Linter

Silk stockings

CMC Carboxymethylcellulose

Water

Blender

Bowl

Sieve

TNT Fabrics

Threads

clothes fasteners

Cotton Bag Cloths

1. 100 g of Cotton Linter ( cotton filter scrap )
2. Divide in small pieces
3. Wet in water in a 10 liters bowl
4. Shake in one liter of water in little amounts

1. Put a soup spoon of CMC in one liter of water and shake

1. Use one cup of the CMC solution to the 10 liters bowl with cotton pulp
2. The Pulp has to be put in small amounts
3. Mix everything with the hands in the bowl until you have an homogenous suspension of the cotton pulp

1. Use the sieve to collect thin layers of pulp from the bowl
2. invert the sieve over a thin stretch fabric , like TNT
3. remove the excess of water with a cloth
4. let it dry
5. remove the paper from the fabric stretching the fabric when paper is completely dry.