Textiles

For our final product in textiles we were asked to create an item that could be part of recycle, Reuse and Re purpose. We were also given a slideshow to make into our own with our project, I decided to make A pillow from a T-shirt. Here is my slideshow that I created with all my information on how I made it, what I did to make it, and how I got along with my project.

Beeswax Wraps

For the past week in textiles we have been learning how to make beeswax wraps, it was a really fun thing to make and I would definitely make it again. The first thing we did was figure out where the beeswax came from, I learnt that bees have these gill like things on their abdomen that excuit out the wax. It took us some time to actually make it because there was a lot of people and there was only one pair of scissors. We were then asked to create a poster which showed the instructions on how to make the beeswax wraps, here is what I made.

Textiles - Candle Holders

This week for Textiles we are making candle holders, we decorated our candle holders with gem stickers. This is how we are making the rest of the candle holder

Here are what we used to decorate the holders

Materials: 

3 Tablespoons of rice.

3 Tablespoons of coffee beans.

Tealight candle

Small glass jar.

Food coloring (optional)

Add the rice into the jar evenly. 

Add the coffee beans on top of the rice with small indent the size of the candle. 

Put the candle in the small indent. 

Decorate the jar if you want to.

Coloring rice (optional)

Add 3 tablespoons of rice into a snaplock bag with 3 drops of food coloring. Mix around until all the rice is covered. Leave colored rice on a tray to dry over 24 - 48 hours.

Here is my decorated holder. 

Textiles

This week for textiles we were asked to make paper cards with the paper we made a few weeks ago. It was a really fun activity because we were able to do it about anything. I chose to do mine about my sisters 21st birthday, My dads 53rd birthday, an adoration card, and an easter card. For my sisters birthday card I drew a card on a gold piece of paper and then cut it out to glue on the card, then I wrote some memories that we shared when I was younger. For my dads card I wrote happy birthday and then coloured a bunch of different things. For my easter card I drew a chick in an egg and then wrote happy easter, For my adoration card I wrote “I A Door You” and replaced the word door with a door and coloured it in rainbow. Here are the photos of the cards I made.

Textiles

A few weeks ago we had made recycled paper. It was really fun to make, especially when we were able to colour the paper. The first thing we did was pulp the newspaper with a hand mixer and added water in too. We then put it into a box so then we could make the paper. We then grabbed the watery pulp and then took a homemade paper maker that was just a photo frame and material that can take out water and took the water away from the pulp. we then took out the access water and then ironed the piece of paper to dry it quicker. I couldn't get any photos but it was a really fun activity to do. Here is the video that we watched to make the paper.

Textiles

This week for textiles we have been researching about paper, how to make it and how manufacturers make it. The paper process is very interesting and not good for the environment. We were asked to make a table on PMI( Positive, Minus, Interesting.) about how commercial paper is made. Here is my table about how paper is made

Positive	Minus / Negative	Interesting
They Recycle the water	Kills trees, which means that animals have no home and that they can’t live	They grow there own trees in a plantation and then cut them every year
Uses water more than once to clean logs.	Strips down the bark as it is not needed which means that there is no use, it’s waste.	3 Main stages - Pulping, Paper making, and Finishing
90% of water recycled.	They take out access water and thrown out because of the chemicals from the pulping.	Chipped up the wood into smaller pieces and put into chemical pulping. Breaks down liquid called lignin.
If you stop using paper it will slowly producing more waste for the world.	It’s killing forests and rainforests which are bad for the plants which means that there won’t be as much oxygen that there would be	They roll the paper out into wide, long sheets that are about 80 inches wide and put it on a roll.
	It creates a lot of waste	Saving paper still doesn’t help, it still needs to do the pulping process which is wasteful.
	Uses about 10 MILLION GALLONS each day
	It creates pollution

Textiles - What Sustainability means

This week for Textiles we are learning about sustainability. This is what I have learned so far for what sustainability means. It was fun to learn about sustainability because it can teach us to be environmentally friendly.

Sewing

This week for sewing we were asked to make a trial for our tshirt bags. The first thing we did was research different ways to make a bag, there were so many different ways to make bags that I found interesting. I decided to make a new sew bag like from the video below. The first thing I did was grab a t-shirt and opened the video to watch. I then followed the videos instructions. I did find it hard but i did complete it. I had a lot of fun and I am going to make it again for my final bag.

My next steps are to paint my bag, and to make it all over again.

I plan to draw on the t-shirt so then I know where to cut and paint.