A community project working with The Fashion & Textile Museum in collaboration with the Brunel Museum. In this project I worked with 10 young mothers who live in the Southwark area of London. We took inspiration from Brunel’s Thames Tunnel commemorative printed silk kerchief, 1843. The rectangular shaped, silk kerchief is approximately one square metre in size and exhibits a design comprising a view of visitors walking along the tunnel, and panoramas at the borders, including line drawings of the tunnel in longitudinal cross-section. The aim of this project was to design our own kerchief taking inspiration from where the group lived, Southwark. The designs were inspired by the local architecture, mainly focusing on the patterns and shapes. The groups drawings were exposed onto a silk screens and they printed onto silk material using procion screen printing inks.
