Sampling unit:
Ordered Opposites: Rural/Urban
Contextual Research: SANDRA BACKLUND

To help inspire my knitting workshops, I have researched Knitwear designer Sandra Backlund. My personal style of designing, and the theme I am working with involves quite structural techniques.
Backlunds work with Knitwear is all about structure, be it quite robust, or soft.

These garments remind me of building structures and are very patterned within the textures, especially with the symmetry of the right hand side piece, with what looks like chains decorating the front and on the arms. These pieces also remind me of my sub-section theme of "Order and Chaos".

In contrast to this Urban themed style, I found this garment by Backlund, which I feel represents a more Rural theme:

This garment has gorgeous neutral tones, and the texture is quite fragile and a bit disorganised compared to the Urban style pieces. From the knit tutorials, we have learnt "hook ups" and how to create more 3D texture and holes in the knitting, which I feel I can link to this piece.

Another piece of Backlund's work which caught my eye was this quite futuristic garment:

In-keeping with my sub-section theme of "Coincidence and Deliberate", I like the structure of the arm pieces, but also the way the yarn hangs from the shoulder pieces. It also inspires the idea that using different materials to create 3D structure can be done.