A Summary of Textile in Healing System
Textile in healing is part of the fashion system that in order to gain the benefit oft treatment from textile. There are tones of industries producing toxic chemicals and pollution to the earth that influence human health. There are a lot of stress and anger in our society. Trending make people exhausted and lost spiritually. Therefore, slow fashion should be recalled to our daily life. We have got so much terrible conditions right now on both physical and spiritual aspects. Making high quality clothes and combining with color and texture therapy can make a better environment and to protect our identity out of trending.
Research on Color and Fabric
Color is one of the elements that impacts human emotions. Bright color brings more happiness than dark color. Spiritually, green is the most basic color in the healing world. As the color green is in the middle of the spectrum, it is the only color you use first and last in healing, because it is save to use this way due to its balanced and harmonized feature, it can bring comfortable reflection on human body. Blue is the color that able to cure the whole body from top of the head to bottom feet. It can calm down nervous tension, creates relax and peaceful environment. That means when you are angry, you can put on more blue colored clothes to calm you down.
Due to the characteristics, green and blue are the two main colors I chose in my design, which basically bring the spiritual healing to the designs. On the other hand, texture plays another crucial role in the sense of touching. Natural fiber always makes me feel secured due to its softness and high quality. So, wool yarn and chiffon are the dominant fabric through the whole project. In order to keep everything nice and healthy, natural dye plays crucial role at this point, green tea and indigo dye go through with the fabric manipulations. By testing different fabric weight, thickness and color intensity, to achieve various healing needs.
Design Brief for phase2 and 3
Materials research should be considered more deeply with the healing system and testing how different techniques of knitting influence its texture and feeling. Researching how natural dying and knitwear have been placed in fashion system, and how people reflect on them? As there are not much people really care about natural fiber and textile treatment, it is important to make the problem obvious and develop the idea to increase needs.