2024  | Systems-based Design

Threads of You

Overview and Key Ideas:

Threads of You is a pattern-based experiment with a timeline of three weeks to track the outfit colors of three individuals. 

After collecting the weekly data, there was an interview process about understanding the choices made in every aspect from buying to wearing to re-wearing during the week. An additional focus for this experiment was dissecting self-perception of the colors one wears and the perception from others. To represent the data, three squares were hand-woven from collected yarn using a makeshift cardboard loom. Each woven square contains colors found in everyone’s palettes and reflects part of their identity and clothing choices within the composition. The use of fiber materials tied into the core themes of expression through color, texture, and pattern.

Altogether, the project is focused on calling attention to an otherwise somewhat-subconscious process like “what colors do I wear today?”. In hopes to showcase three, unique individuals and their thought processes and styles, this project is able to dive into different perspectives and stories.

After going to school with uniforms for the bulk of my life, college has been the first time to really experiment with self-expression through clothing, which was the ultimate inspiration for this project.

Analysis of yarn choices:

Tina’s square follows a color order that is predictable and flows well together, and it has a fluffed edge to dress up the side. Kaylee’s square was inspired by a Chindi rug, a multicolored rug that is typically made of scrap materials and reflects her love of mixing colors together through the clothes she wears every week. Maddie’s square goes dark to light with various colors from her palette that are alternating with black to call back to her typically darker-based outfits.