'Hand Pleating' (WEEK 8)

Terry Weinert from F CIMENT PLEATING LTD came in and showed us some of his work.
His company specialises in pleating and he's done work for Lady GaGa, Stricly Come Dancing to Cadburys.

Here are just a few of his amasing works:

To more intricate design...

Above is the original cardboard template made used to produce the blue pleated fabric below. Terry said that it can often take up to 80 hours to create a template. Once it is made the fabric is sandwiched between 2 of the same layers and steamed. He also noted that polyesters tend to work best as they keep their pleats better.

More Cardboard templates...

After his presentation of pleated fabrics, we were left to experiment to try and recreate pleats that we had seen and liked. I learnt the hard way by making mistakes but after contiuously playing eventually came up with the following...

I learnt that there are endless possibilitys to pleating, and it was really inspiring to think that these could be used for future garment ideas. It was very time consuming, yet very satisfying!!

Issey Miyake's unique and original design using paper pleating shows how the above techniques could be translated into a garment!

















Or into architecture? As Cambridge Univeristy students did here for an architecture project.