Rachael Allen
Multi-Media Textiles
Featured projects
Scorched Velvet
Velvet shibori burnt to create texture accompanied by an organza later cut piece embellished with crystals.
Blue Folded Wing
Folded silk organza, acid dyed with shibori resist effect, steamed folded to retain its shape.
Wings Texture
Laser cut organza applied to velvet, with crystal details.
Butterfly print
Original painting digitally printed onto organza.
Orange Folded Wing
Folded silk organza, acid dyed with shibori resist effect, steamed folded to retain its shape.
Velvet shibori
Shibori technique on silk velvet in blue.
Butterfly Velvet Suit
Hand painted silk velvet visualised into a suit.
Wings surface
Faux fur embroidered with hand cut sequins.
Rachael Allen
Rachael is a textile design graduate specialising in multi-media. Her work is driven by textures and patterns, envisioning them as fabric and translating them into processes that will be visualised into fashion collections.
Her project 'Under the Microscope' has taken inspiration from entomology, the study of insects. Working from a selection of images captured by a microscope, she explores the unexpected nature of insects textures and forms and imitates these with processes such as laser cutting, shibori and applique. Building upon the contrast of the density of their bodies and lightness of the wings, the combination of sheers and velvets have been used. In turn this has steered the project towards a high-end fashion collection.
Awards
Exhibited at Peepul Centre in Leicester - My Textile Story Exhibited at Premiere Vision
Experience
Jenny Packham - Beading Assistant (May - September 2018)
Placements
June 2017 - April 2018
Mary Katrantzou - Embroidery Intern Jenny Packham - Beading Intern Philip Treacy - Millinery Intern