Learn Fabric Manipulation Techniques

1. Fabric Manipulation Techniques Trailer: Hi. I'm Dominika Syczynska and I welcome you to my fabric design masterclass. So how do you turn a completely flat piece of fabric into a ready garment? How do you make patterns? How do you make prints? How do you create structures? I'm a fashion and textile designer and a master class teacher as well, with many years of experience in the fashion industry. Ever since I remember, ever since I was a little girl, I was always driven by the curiosity on how are actually clothes made. So how do you turn a completely flat piece of fabric into a ready garment? How do you make patterns? How do you make prints? How do you create structures? At some point of my life, this curiosity brought me to London, the Central Saint Martins Fashion School of Design, where I literally did all possible design courses that I could. I had this very great luck that I could work on the London Fashion Week that they had my collections shown on the runway, that I was meeting buyers, say it's assistance, showroom assistance. I've literally seen the whole fashion industry from behind the scenes. I decided that I want to join a TV program, Project Runway, and I won the very first-price on the professional designer awards, and I also had my collections shown at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week. This masterclass is for everyone who ever wondered how to create three-dimensional, unique, and structured text size? The next thing that we have to do is to draw a grid on it. "Oh my God, this looks amazing." You don't have to be a fashion designer, you don't have to be a fabric designer in order to master this course. Because the only thing that you need is simply passion for creating, and well, a needle and thread. I'm Dominika Syczynska and I'm your fabric design teacher. 2. What you will learn in this course: In this course, you will learn how to create structured fabrics using various fabric manipulation techniques such as smocking, shibori, ribbon folding, tacking, or layering. I will also show you all the materials and all the tools which you need in order to master this class. I will inspire you by showing you ready-made garments. This masterclass is for everyone who ever wondered how to create a three-dimensional, unique, unstructured text size. Let me tell you something, you don't have to be a fashion designer. You don't have to be a fabric designer in order to master this course. Because the only thing that you need is simply passion for creating and well and needle and thread. The goal of this masterclass is to teach you the whole process of fabric design and fabric manipulation and to simply inspire you and share my passion and my love for designing with you. So let's get started. 3. Shibori: Introduction: Hi, guys. This video I'm going to teach you how to create shibori bubbles. Shibori bubbles is a technique that originated in Japan and is very commonly used by architecture designers, high-fashion designers, who simply love this technique and use it quite often in their runaway shows. I also admire this technique because you can create three-dimensional structure fabrics and it's actually quite simple to be honest to do it and it's not that time-consuming. It's a very cool technique. What is very important to remember about shibori bubbles is that this technique is heat activated, which means that we are going to have to work with steam and high temperature. Now, I'd love to tell you all the materials and tools which you're going to need for mastering this course. 4. Shibori: Tools and Materials: First of all, we need fabrics. They have to be 100 percent synthetic and at least 70 percent. I would recommend you to work with organza, fixed satin, or chiffon. We need beads, different beads. You can use big ones, wooden ones, tiny ones, natural ones. You can work as well with coins, pins, fabric scissors, the bigger ones, small ones. We need cotton thread or strong threads. We need a seam ripper and then we're going to need a steam iron as well. This is all the thing that we need in order to create our shibori sample. 5. Shibori : Technique: [MUSIC] The very first thing that we have to do is to cut our synthetic fabric into an A3 size, which means, it's going to be around 30 centimeters to 42. I'm going for my organza because I like it that it's shiny on one side, and on the other side, it's quite matte. Now, I'm going to take my fabric scissors. Always use fabric scissors, not paper scissors. I'm going to cut an A3 size approximately because you don't have to be too picky with the size. It can be approximately an A3 size. Once it's cut, we can move forward. We're going to start to tie in our objects inside. Take our rope, and tie it around. [MUSIC] I'm going to tie it inside. I'm taking my beat on the matte side. Because I want my fabric to be shiny, I'm putting it inside. Now, I have to twist it, but I have to twist it twice. One, two. Our fabric sticks to our object quiet well, it's not loose. That would be incorrect, for example, and that's correct. Always twist it quite strong around. Then we're going to have to take our thread. We're going to tie it around our object, approximately three times I think is enough. Then we're going to cut off our thread, and we're going to make a small knot, [MUSIC] like that. Voila, our first shibori bubble is almost ready. Now, we're going to do another one. I'm taking another object, I'm going to go this time for I think a smaller one. [MUSIC] You can play with various distances between the beads. You can make them very, very close to each other, or you can come up with a pretty cool pattern. You can work, for example, with small beads. Then use bigger ones and the biggest ones. You can just simply, for example, design a pattern, where you are having some distances between them. It's totally up to you, what you want to achieve, and how you want your fabric to look. [MUSIC] Amazing. I had finished my whole sample, it's completely covered with beads. I've taken smaller beads and bigger ones. Just mixed them all together out. Now, we are ready to steam it. Join me. Let's go, and steam our beautiful sample. We're going to steam it on both sides. One, on this side once, and the other one, on the other side. Because it's a quite small fabric sample, and our fabric is pretty thin and soft, we're just going to have to steam it for around five minutes. But remember that if you would have a fabric, which is quite heavyweight like, for example, fake leather, you would have to steam it for at least 10 minutes. Let's get started. You can press it from time to time, but don't overdo it, as our fabric is pretty thin, and we don't want to burn it down. Then I'm turning it around, and I'm steaming it on the other side. [MUSIC] Be careful because you don't want to burn down your fingers. I'm going to move it a little bit around as well so the steam gets everywhere inside. [MUSIC] I will just continue to steaming it the whole time. [MUSIC] Again, on the other side. We are steaming it. I think that's going to be enough because we've been steaming it for over five minutes. Now, I'm just going to collect it. Once our fabric is still hot, we will not unwrap our thread. We'll just go back to our desk, and wait till it gets cold. Once we have steamed our fabric on both sides, we need to get rid of every single thread, in order to take out every bead out of the fabric. Therefore, I'm going to work with my small scissors, or you can also take a seam ripper in order to cut your thread. I'm going to work with my scissors, and I'm going to go to the very first bead. [MUSIC] I'm going to simply cut my thread like that. Then twist around my thread, and take out my bead. [MUSIC] I'm going to continue doing the same thing with the whole fabric. [MUSIC] Oh my god, I love the shibori bubble sample. It's so three-dimensional. It's so structured, and soft as well. I hope your sample looks also amazing. You just feel in love with shibori bubbles. Always collect your samples in the sample book. [MUSIC] You sew a beautiful shibori pattern. [MUSIC] Now, I would love to show you a ready example of the garment. You can have a look how we can apply this technique while designing fashion. Come and join me. 6. Shibori : Inspiration: Hi. I would like to show you an example of Shibori buttons and how to apply it to clothing. This is an example of a black sweatshirt, my newest collection. It's actually a completely plain basic and easy sweatshirt. What I did was take Shibori buttons made out of fake leather. I was also doing a philographic cutout. My Shibori buttons are made of beads. I was using small beads, medium ones and the totally large ones. I hope you liked this inspiration and you're going to create your own amazing Shibori button fabrics. 7. Sandwich Fabric : Introduction: Hi. In this video, I would love to teach you how to create multi-color, three-dimensional fabric or the sandwich fabric. A sandwich Fabric is a fabric manipulation technique where you stitch together at least three layers of fabric, then you have to take your scissors and you cut the two upper layers, and then you can finally manipulate the resulting rows and different many options. I personally loved this technique and I made a whole collection out of sandwich fabric because I love the fact that you can combine various techniques, various colors, and various fabrics and you can create just amazing artifacts. Right now I would like to tell you what exactly tools and materials we're going to use in order to create our beautiful sandwich fabric. 8. Sandwich Fabric : Tools and Materials: The tools and materials that we need for making a sandwich fabric are; we need at least three different colors of fabric. We have to print out our template. We need to ruler. We need fabric scissors. This big ones and the smaller ones as well. We need pens, Taylor's chalk, a meter, and a sewing machine. 9. Sandwich Fabric : Technique: [MUSIC] Now we're going to cut our fabric into a square of the size of 36 centimeters to 36 centimeters. [MUSIC] Once we have cut out our fabrics, which are cut out into three identical squares of the size 36 centimeters of 36 centimeters, we simply have to decide the order of our fabrics as we needed: the upper layer, a middle layer, and a bottom layer. Once you can take a look at my sample, you can see that on the bottom layer I have dark blue, and in the middle I have light blue, and on the opposite side I have the yellow one. You have to decide right now your order. I think I'm going to go for the order which looks like I have silver on the bottom, in the middle I have the red one, and on top of it I will take my dark blue one, and I put them all together. What is very important to remember that our fabric, which is in the middle, it will twist around. If I put it on the shiny side, it will twist around to the matte side while we will stitch it on a sewing machine. If we put it on the matte side, it would just twist around and it will turn out shiny. Just keep in mind once you're going to decide your order of fabrics. Once we have decided the order of our fabrics, we have to take our tailor's chalk and the ruler. The first thing that we have to do is to take our fabric, which is going to be on the top so we can put these ones aside, and we have to draw a diagonal line in the middle. I'm taking my ruler and I'm just going to draw a line in the middle like that. Now you have to take your meter and we're going to have to cover the whole fabric with more lines. The spacing between each line is going to be two and a half centimeter. [MUSIC] Okay, great. Once you have done this, you have to take your ruler once again and you have to draw those lines every two and a half centimeter. [MUSIC] That's my one side. I'm going to turn around. I'm going to draw the rest of the lines every two and a half centimeter. [MUSIC] Okay, voila. Now we have our template ready and we could put it back on our fabric like that. Now we have to take our pins and just simply pin together all of these three layers. Pins are very, very important. Don't forget to use them because we do not want our samples to move when we're going to stitch it on the sewing machine. This template, which is attached to the video and you can print it out anytime, is showing us exactly the directions of sewing. We have a number 1 in the middle, which means that we're going to have to stitch firstly our diagonal line, which is in the middle. Then we have to work outwards, which means that we're going to stitch secondly and thirdly those lines. Then we're going move to number 4 and 5, 6 and 7, 8 and 9. Also, please have a close look at our template as it's showing you the exact order of sewing. Our center line is going to be stitched in one direction, and then we're going to have to twist around our fabric, and we're going to have to stitch the second and third line in the opposite directions. Now as we have all of our lines drawn on a fabric, we can start stitching. As aforementioned, we firstly going to split the line, which is in the middle in the center line. I'm just going to go to my sewing machine and I start stitching. Remember it just has to be a simple running stitch, so nothing complicated. We will stitch in this direction. [NOISE] Once we have stitched our center line, we have to stitch outwards and we're going to do the second and third line. As I said, we have to twist our fabric and now we can stitch the second and third line. We're going again to our sewing machine. Again, we're just going to stitch with basic running stitch. My second line is done. Now we have to stitch the third line, which is on the left from the center line. [NOISE] We continue sewing outwards. We're going to do the fourth and the fifth line, the sixth, the seventh, and just always remember that we have to twist our fabric whenever we finish a line. [NOISE] Once we already sewing our lines, you have to take our scissors and we're going to cut two upper layers of fabric. Once again, do not cut our third layer. We just have to cut the very two first layers of fabric. We're going to cut each line in the middle. I'm just going to start with my middle one. I'm making double sure that I'm not cutting the last layer and I'm just going inside with my scissors. I'm trying to cut exactly in the middle between two stitch lines. [MUSIC] My last line and voila, my whole fabric sample is cuts. It should look like that right now. You can manipulate your resulting rows. Once this is done, we have to take our ruler once again. Now we're going to have to draw again a diagonal line in the middle. I'm taking my ruler, tailor's chalk. I'm placing it in the middle, and now I'm going to draw one more line. Now the fun part starts, which means that we're going to finally manipulate our sandwich fabric. Before we start sewing, we have to add two more lines on the right and then on the left. Altogether, we're going to have three lines. Now it's up to you to decide where you want to draw two more lines. The best thing to do is to take your finger in the middle and fold the one pleat to one side, then you take your second finger and you fold the pleat on the left side in the opposite direction. If you fold it too close to the center line, you see those folds are closing and you don't get that three-dimensional effect. You better move your finger to the side a little bit around five, seven centimeters and you see that you are getting this cool three-dimensional effect, which means that it would be the best thing to do is to draw another line around. Yeah, I think it's going to be around eight centimeters from the center line. Bent over your folds in one direction. This is going to be my very first line which I'm going to stitch, and I'm just going to fold each layer and pin it. [MUSIC] My whole fabric sample is pinned and it's looking already three-dimensional one. Now we just have to stitch it together. I'm firstly going to stitch the center line in one direction, so this one, then I'm going to turn my fabric around and I'm going to stitch in the opposite direction to the two other lines. [MUSIC] Finally, it's done. I've stitched all the three lines and I can't wait to see how it looks. This is my one, the blue, red, and silver one. I think it looks stunning and I love it already. I think I'm going to use it for sure when I'm going to design some clothes. As aforementioned, I was drawing three straight lines in the middle. Right now, I'd like to show you as well an example of lines. These ones around and the center line is straight and you are getting a completely different effect than this one. I also work with metallic fabrics over here and I used a sheer fabric underneath. I think it's looking so great on the body because it's see-through so it's getting a little bit sexy and edgy at the same time. Yeah, I love sandwich fabric and I also did a whole collection using this fabric. I would love to show you this one and inspire you and show you how you can arrange sandwich fabrics in your daily wear. [MUSIC] 10. Sandwich Fabric: Inspiration : Hi. I would like to show you now an example of sandwich fabric, and how we can apply it to fashion design. This is an example of a mini dress from my last collection, and as you can see it, I've manipulated the whole part, so it's other thing is covered in sandwich fabric, and I was mixing together wool, silver lime, and white cotton. Another example is a white dress, which I only manipulated the details in the middle, so you can see that I've been mixing red lime, silver lime, and white cotton together. Maybe you've already noticed that my denim jacket, is also covered with sandwich fabric, and my sleeves are made of sandwich fabric, which is a combination of silver lime, silver leather, and denim. As you can see that the whole part is manipulated, and it's created out of red, silver, and denim fabric. Another example are these trousers, demo runway trousers, so it's not that daily wear. But I think they're looking really cool on the stage and on photo shoots. I have as well a dress, which is quite similar to this jacket, because it's from one collection. I've also manipulated the whole fabric using sandwich fabric. I hope you liked this examples of sandwich fabric, and now we're going to also create great garments and accessories using this fabric manipulation technique. 11. Smocking: Introduction: Hi, and welcome back. In this video, I would like to teach you another fabric manipulation technique called smocking. Smocking is the art cartoon technique which means what? Yes, exactly. We're going to hand stitch and there are no sewing machines and no other machines which are going to do the job for you. I guess smocking is all about craftsmanship and hand sewing. I know what you're probably thinking right now something like, "Oh my God, it's going to take ages to do it." You're right because smocking is super time-consuming, but believe me, in the very end, it's so worth the time and work being put into creating a sample because smocking is simply beautiful. It's also a technique which is beloved by art cartoon designers. You can find beautifully smocked fabrics and runway shows of, for example, Alexander McQueen, for Dior, Chanel, and Miu Miu. I also have to admit that I'm obsessed with smocking and I have done a whole collection only made of smocked fabrics. I think it was super time-consuming, yes, but in the very end, it looks spectacular and unique. Because I love smocking so much that I want to share with you today my favorite pattern which is the arrow pattern. It is a triangle-shaped, three-dimensional pattern which we are going to do today. Right now, I would like to show you all the tools and materials which we are going to need in order to create our beautiful smocked fabric sample. 12. Smocking: Tools and Materials : The very first thing that we need is fabric. Our fabric should be plain without any prints on it and it should not be too soft because it won't hold your structure. So it would be great if you would have, for example, cotton, or fix satin or even wool or literal wax amazing for smoking as well. We need a ruler in order to draw our lines and our grid. It's very important that you print out your template with our arrow pattern which is attached to this video. You'll need pins, needles, we need fabric scissors, the bigger ones and the smaller ones as well, we need as well, tailor's chalk, we need a meter, then we need matching threads. Your threads should be quite strong, everything that we need so we can start designing right now. 13. Smocking : Technique: [MUSIC] Now we have to cut our fabric into a square size of 36 centimeters and 36 centimeters. I'm going to work on this blue heavy cotton because I think it's going to look great and it's going to work amazing for smocking. I'm going to take my meter and I'm going to double-check if I have 36 centimeters, I'm going to mark it. Width. We can cut our fabric right now. What is very important to remember about smocking is that smocking is reducing a fabric up to 50 percent which means that if you take, for example, one meter of fabric and the very end after you smock your fabric you're just going to have 50 percent of it, which means 50 centimeters. [MUSIC] Okay great. I have my square size of 36 centimeters to 36 centimeters. The next thing that we have to do is to draw a grid on it. If you have a closer look at our pattern, you can see that we're going to work on squares or small squares of the sides three centimeters to three centimeters and later on we're going to draw in our arrow pattern. Now we're going to take our ruler and we simply going to mark dots every three centimeter. Then we're going to connect our lines and create the whole grid. We have to cover the whole piece of fabric with our grid. Okay. My fabric is marked and now I'm going to connect my points and simply draw my pattern, one line after another one. Once we have covered our whole fabric sample with a beautiful grid of the size of three centimeters to three centimeters each square, we're going to have to draw in our arrow pattern. Have a closer look right now at your pattern and you can see those triangles which we have to draw on our fabric sample. I'm going to take a ruler and a tailors chalk and I'm just going to copy this pattern on my fabric. One line after another one. Always double-check that you are not making any mistakes when copying the patterns because it happens quite a lot of times and unfortunately then you have to stitch the sample once again from the beginning which we don't want to, so always be very precise and double-check your pattern. [MUSIC] My whole fabric sample is covered with beautiful triangles. Your sample should look like this right now. Now we're ready to make the magic happen. We're going to start hand stitching, of course and after about two or three lines of hand stitching, you're going to see your beautiful pop pattern coming out and becoming three dimensional on the other sides. Because always remember that when you're drawing your arrow pattern, you have to draw on the left side of the fabric because you're going to see your 3D pattern on the right side. Always just double-check if you would like to have a matte or shiny pattern. Now we're going to have to thread our needle. What we should actually do is take a thread, which is having the matching color as your fabric. But I will just use today contrasting thread like the white one, so you can better see how I'm going to stitch. Now I'm taking my thread. It's a pretty thick one. I'm going to thread my needle like that. I'm going to take it twice. The length should not be too long, to be honest. I think that length is going to be okay. Around 10-15 centimeters, not more, I'm cutting it off. Then we have to try to make three knots on the very end and one knot should sit on another one. Because we have to create a very thick and bigger knot so it doesn't go through the fabric when we pull our thread. One, I have number 2, I add one more. Yep, I have one more. I'm just going to cut off a little bit so it looks a little bit more neat and tidy and now we can start stitching. Whenever we start stitching our smocking sample, we have to start on the right side or on the left side. Which means that we cannot stitch, for example, diagonally or we cannot start on one side and then continue sewing on the other side because this will get too messy. I'm going to start on the right side and I'm going to stitch my very first triangle. In this corner I'm picking up just a little bit of fabric around two millimeters of fabric. I'm going through the fabric like this. I'm pulling my thread and I'm doing it once again. I'm trying to go into the same hole and come out in the same place. Now we're going to move our thread diagonally. I'll move over here and I'll pick up just two millimeters in this place. I'm just picking it up. I'm not making any knots. I'm going to stitch the second line and I'm picking up again. Just a two millimeters. It should look like that. We just stitched one and the other one and now we're going to pull our thread tight. We have to pull it really tight. That would be a mistake that's completely wrong. We have to put it very tight. We have to catch our two pleats together and then we're going to stitch. We're going to go around two millimeters inside and we are going to come out, at the other side. We go just once and another time. [inaudible] we're going to go to narrow point and remember that there is a blank square here so you can not stitch over here. We have to go over here and again pick up just two millimeters, like that. Remember that you have to leave, left some loose thread. It has to be loose. I'm going to stitch again in the same place. I'm just making double sure that this thread is not pulling and I'm going to another line and again stitch this one and the other one. You sip the stitched one and the second line and now I'm going to pull it, very tight and I'm going to go through fabric 1, 2, and 3 times. Our second triangle is done. I will have a look at the other side and I can already see that something's going to happen here. It's already becoming three-dimensional. Whenever you do smocked fabrics, you have to remember that you have to do at least around three rows of our pattern in order to see something ready on the other side. Be patient and just continue sewing the same way as we just did and yeah, in about three rows, you're going to see the magic happen. I'll continue stitching. Yes, we have to stitch the whole sample right now, hand stitching. [MUSIC] I just finished stitching my arrow pattern. I'm still on the left side and I'm super excited to see what's on the other side. 3, 2, 1, go. Oh my God, this looks amazing. I hope your sample also looks that incredible as mine and you have just stitched so many beautiful triangles which are three-dimensional and make your garments look amazing. I really love this pattern and I also prepared for you another example, work and then wool. This is how the arrow pattern wool looks like. I think it's also very nice and unique and yeah I hope you enjoyed this smocking pose and you're going to create beautiful samples and beautiful garments and I also would like to show you some ready-made clothes and I hope I'm going to inspire you. Thank you for joining me on this course. [MUSIC] 14. Smocking: Inspiration: Hi, I would like to show you now an example of smocking pattern and using our beautiful arrow pattern. This is occurred for my collection and as you can see, I've manipulated the sleeves using our arrow pattern. I've been working with a grid size of six centimeter. You can see that it's a leather and it's shiny. Then on this part, I've been using the arrow pattern and the grid was six centimeters. It's also manipulated from the backside. It's pretty heavy. Yes, it is. But I think it looks amazing on the silhouette. Then I have another cool example. This is a cashmere top. I personally love working with cashmere because you can see the structures popping out from the fabric. I also was working with a grid size of 4.5 centimeters so our arrows are a little bit bigger, and I've embellished it with silver embellishments. Then I also have an interesting example of a dress where I have combined different kinds of smocking patterns. You can see on the right side that we have the arrow pattern and the grid size was three centimeters, and also on the left side is the arrow pattern. Then in the very middle, we can find the leaf pattern. I've combined different patterns of smocking and I think it's looking super interesting. Last but not least, I have a vest which is also made of leather. It's shiny and I've been working with different grids of arrow patterns. On the right side, you can see the grid size is three centimeters. Then on the backside, it's bigger, I've been working with a grid size of six centimeters. I hope you like this inspiration and now you're going to create your own beautiful smocked fabrics. 15. Tucking : Introduction: Hi guys. Welcome to another course, and today we're going to learn another fabric manipulation technique which is called tucks. Tucks are very similar to pleats, but the only difference is that they are stitched along the length, and they stick up from the fabric. They are very free dimensional one, and they can vary in length and size. There are many kinds of tucks and I'm going show you today three different examples. The very first one are closed tucks. They're very basic and very simple and you create them by stitching together just pleats. Another example are folded tucks, which are very three-dimensional, and they actually look very similar to our sandwiched fabric which we just created. Another example are origami tucks. Origami tucks are my favorite ones because they have very three-dimensional one and you can have fun with them and design your own patterns. Today I would like to teach you the most advanced technique of tucks, and it's going to be the Origami one. Now I'm going to tell you which tools and materials we're going to need in order to create our beautiful sample. 16. Tucking : Tools and Materials: The very first thing that we need is fabric. I recommend you to take cotton fabric and a completely plain one and we're going to cut it into the size of 46-40 centimeters. Later on, you have to print out your template which is attached to the video, it's the size of a A3 paper sheet. We need as well pins, fabric scissors, paper scissors, and thread scissors, a meter, tailor's chalk, thread, and a sewing machine. This is actually everything that we need in order to master our beautiful origami samples, so let's start designing. 17. Tucking : Technique: [MUSIC] Once we have cut out our fabric into size of 46 to 30 centimeters, we're going to have to focus on our paper template. What I want you to do right now is to fold each line. We going to fold the first, second, third, and so on line and we're going to create small plaits. This is very important as we going to cut out those small triangles later on. I'm bending them, number 1, and I will continue doing the same thing with the other lines. [MUSIC] I just folded my whole paper pattern, and in case you couldn't print it out, I'm just going to quickly explain you what's going on here. We have eight lines, the black ones, and the distance between them is always five centimeters, and then we have drawn some figures and the spacing between the first one is zero centimeters, the second one is two centimeters, then we have four centimeters, 6, 6, 4, 2, and again zero. The length of them is two centimeters each. Once we have our folder paper, we're going to take our paper scissors. What do we have to do right now is to cut out every single triangle and we're going to cut along this line. I'm cutting my very first one. Now, I'm going to cut my second triangle. Again I'm cutting along the line, and I'm going to my second line, I'm folding it. Again, I'm going to cut out my triangle, and I will continue doing the same with my whole pattern. Basically we have to cut out every single triangles, so we're going to just bend over our paper and cut them out, bend over, and cut them out. Once we have cut out our template, it should look like this. We're going to have to put it on our fabric, and we're going to have to pin it to the fabric sample, because we don't want our template to move because we're going to translate the pattern in a second on the fabric. I'm just going to quickly pin it. You have to be very, and once again, very precise in this fabric sample, because these are origami tags and every tiny little centimeter counts here, so we don't want to lose any millimeters or centimeters, so be very precise. I recommend you to use the pins, add two more and voila. My paper pattern is right now pinned to the fabric, and now I'm going to take a pen and I'm just going to draw along these lines, because I need to copy this pattern on my fabric, and I also have to mark the lines which are on the side, so these lines, the long ones which have the spacing between five centimeters. I'm taking a pen, just a regular pencil, you can use as well tailor's chalk. I like using a pencil, I think it's more precise on a tailor's chalk, [MUSIC] and I'm just going to copy my pattern. [MUSIC] I've just finished drawing my pattern, and I copied the whole paper pattern on my fabric and it should look like this. I copied all the lines, and I've copied also the objects. Now we have to fold our lines and we just going to simply iron them. We going to fold each line, and we going to iron it. [MUSIC] Once we have ironed our fabric, we going to have to stitch it on our sewing machine. We're going to start with our first plait. You can use a pen right now, it's going to make it work a little bit more neat and tidy. We're going to have to stitch along those lines. Along the line which we just have drawn on our fabric, so we're going to stitch those two triangles. We just going to use a basic running stitch , so nothing complicated. Just be very precise of it. Of course, use matching thread. I'm using a white fabric because, well obviously my fabric is white, and I'm sewing my two triangles. Number 1 is done, and now the second one. Once we have finished stitching our first two triangles, we can move to the second line. We're going to fold it once again, and then we're going to stitch our two triangles. I'm stitching this triangle first and then I'm stitching the second one. [NOISE] Number 1 and the second one. Voila, I just finished stitching all of my triangles, See they are all done. I'm just going to get rid of all the existing threads which I don't meet right now. I liked my samples to be very neat and clean to be honest, I'm a little too picky about it, yes I have to admit it. Once we are done with it, we're going to have to take our small scissors and we're going to have to cut along our stitching line and we have to cut out the fabric. I'm going to show you right now how are we going to do it. We're taking those small scissors and we are not cutting exactly by our stitch, but we just have to move our scissors around two millimeters to the right. I'm going to cut it over here, and I'm cutting it on the other side. Just cut out a small tiny triangle. Voila, and then I'm making a tiny stitch on top. We are making this tiny stitch because our fabric is going to move a little bit easier and softer laid on. I'm doing exactly the same thing with the second line. I'm cutting out a small triangle. See we left around one or two millimeters of fabric on the right, left side, and I'm making another small tiny cut. Then I'm moving to the second fold and I'm doing the same. I'm cutting out my small triangle, voila, another small tiny cut over here, and we're going to cut out the second one, and we just have to continue doing the same process with all of our stitches. [MUSIC] Once we have in which every single triangle and then we've cut out our tiny triangles leaving one millimeter on each side of fabric, we got to have to order our piece into one direction on the right side, like this, and the other half on the left side, like that. Remember that we're still on the reverse side of the fabric. Now we have to take each single tagline and we're going to push it outwards into the opposite direction. I'm taking the very first line, and I'm pushing the whole line outwards, then I'm taking this line and I'm pushing it. We have almost one tagline ready, and I'm pushing this part, this line, and one origami tag is pushed and almost ready. Going back to our reverse side, we going to continue doing this same process with all the other lines. I'm taking second line, and I'm pushing it outwards, the center part, and then the third line of our second tag. You can as well iron them in between. They become nice and flat, and we continue pushing outwards our lines. We can iron them in-between, so they become nice and flat, [NOISE] and we go back, and we pushed this part as well. We are iron it, and we push it. [NOISE] Now the tagline is done, and we can move to the next line. We're pushing it. [MUSIC] Congratulations, you have just finished your very first origami tag sample, it should look like this. We have our beautiful sample and it's actually a flop one but you can also move those beautiful plaits to the right and to the left side. If you want to have a more three dimensional artifact. I really hope you liked this example as much as I like it. I will also would like to show you some great inspiration so you can have a look how we can apply tags in your daily work. 18. Ribbon Folding : Introduction: Hi, guys. In this video, I would like to show you another fabric manipulation technique which is called the ribbon folding. Ribbon folding is a very decorative technique where you work mainly with box bleeds, which you can manipulate and many options. You can create three-dimensional effects like the pinch top, or you can create amazing origami samples and you create them by hand stitching and by folding them. Today I'd love to show you a couple of examples and we're going to do some of them. So let's get started. 19. Ribbon Folding: Tools and Materials: First of all, we need ribbons. The length of our ribbon should be 90 centimeters and it should be wide, five or six centimeters. If you don't want to work on ribbons, you can as well take fabric and just cut it into a stripe, which is going to be wide six centimeters, and again long for 90 centimeters. We need fabric or we can use ribbon. We need a cardboard, we need needles, we need pins, we need thread, fabric scissors, papers scissors, scrap scissors, a meter, tailor's chalk, a ruler, a sewing machine, and an iron. This is all we need, so let's get started. 20. Ribbon Folding : Technique: [MUSIC] The very first thing that we have to do is to cut our inbound into a length of 90 centimeters. Because I want to work on fabric, because I like this fabric because it's on one side silver on other side, it's going to be black. I'm just going to cut out a long stride of 90 centimeters, and it's going to be wide, six centimeters. I'm just going to quickly mark my line. I'll just take my zigzag scissors because I liked the effect and it also prevents our fabric from fraying. I Just quickly cut out my striped fabric, which is on one side of one color, and on the other side another color, is actually a super great solution for our pinch top, and the pinched up is our first example which we going to do from little folding. [MUSIC] My stripe is almost ready to get manipulated. Now, we have to take our cardboard and we have to draw on it a square of the sides six centimeters to six centimeters, and we have to mark a line in the middle after three centimeters. [MUSIC]. I just have cut out my square size, and I'm just going to mark the line in the middle, so this is central line after three centimeters. Once we have cut out our stripe, we're going to take our square, and we're going to put it on the very end of our fabric. This line meets the beginning of our fabric, like this. The next step would be to fold over. I will measure cod, our fabric. This split this fault may meet this line, Be precise. Once you have done this, you can take out carefully your cardboard. Now we have to turn around our fabric. You can actually take a pin and quickly pin your box pleat. Now we are on the other side of the fabric, and we're going to take again our cardboard. We're going to lay it on our fabric, this line meets the beginning of our box split, like that. We're going to fold over again our fabric like we did it previously. We are folding it towards this line in the middle of a central line, we have taken out our cardboard, we are taking again a pin, and we're going on the reverse side, and we just made a box pleat. A box pleat is the very beginning of our ribbon folding. Now we're going to have to continue this process with our host stripe. Some again, taking my cardboard, this line is meeting our fold, and I'm folding it over, I'm taking it out, I'm pinning it, and half of the box pleat is done, and we can go to the reverse side. I'm taking my measure card again, laying it down on my fabric, folding it over, taking it out, and yes, we're going to pin it once again. We simply continue the whole process we've always strive. [MUSIC]. I have just finished pining my box pleats, this is how it looks. Once we have done this process, the next thing that we have to do is to draw a line in the middle. We're going to draw a central line, and because my box pleats are wide, six centimeters, we're just going to draw a line in the middle of the three centimeters. I'm making the three centimeters, and now we'll just draw a line in the middle. Now we have to stitch our line, and we're going to stitch along this line which we have just drawn. We just going to use a basic running stitch. You're going to move to our sewing machine, and just keep in mind that you should use fabric which is in the same color as your thread. [MUSIC]. I have just finished stitching my box pleat, and this is how they should look like. This is running stitch in the middle. This is the place where we're going to start manipulating our beautiful ribbon folding. Now, we have to take a needle and a thread, and I'm going to use a black thread because my fabric is black and silver. I'm just going to quickly thread it. I'm going to make not on the very end. Your thread, it doesn't have to be too long because we're going to just cut it off every time you move to another box pleat. I think it's just five centimeter is going to be all right. I'm making quickly one, and the second knot, I'm cutting it off. Now, I'm going to start to hand stitch. I'm basically taking my very first box pleat and I'm just going to fall over in the middle these two layers. You can see it start getting three-dimensional. You can start seeing the dark color, the black one, inside, and Here you can see the silver one, which is giving it a pretty cool effect, I think. Now we have to stitch them over here. I'm just going to go inside with my knot into one layer of fabric, like that, and I'm just going to stitch over two or three times around. One, the second, and now the third one, and the last one. Cut off your thread. Your very first pinch top is ready. Once we have done that our first pinched top, we're going to move the second one, and we just do the same process. I'm folding over these two layers, like this, and I'm taking my needle thread, and I'm doing exactly the same. I'm hand stitching. Now, stitch it around three times in the same place. One, the second one, and the third one. Two box pleats are done. Let's cut out the thread and move to the third one. [MUSIC]. Before I show you the other examples, let me please remind you that you also have to prepare your ribbons first and you have to create those box pleats. You always have to have your box pleats ready made out of ribbon, and then we're going to manipulate them by irony and hand stitching them. Let's go, and let me show you the other examples. 21. Ribbon Folding : Other Examples: [MUSIC] Now I'm going to show you how to make a ribbon folding origami pattern. These are the two examples which I would like to show you and we're going to start with the first one. First, you have to prepare your box kits. Once you have done them, you're going to start manipulating them. You're going to take a finger, you're going to put it inside, fold it over, and then you're going to have to press those two lines, Number 1 and Number 2. They have to become totally flat. Then I recommend you to take some pins and just simply pin them. Later on, you have to iron them. This is our first one and we're going to continue doing the same with the other box kits. Once again, I'm putting my finger inside, and I'm pressing those two lines completely flat. Again, I'm taking some pins. You can see already that we are building the same pattern. I will continue doing the same with the other box kits [MUSIC]. Now I will show you how to make the second pattern. Once again, we have our box kits ready. Now we have to manipulate them. We're taking our finger again, inside we are folding this line and now we're going to have to press those two lines. So I'm pressing the very first one, and then I'm pressing the second one. I'm taking some pins, and again, I'm pinning it [MUSIC]. We're going to continue doing the same with the second box kits. So my finger is inside, and I'm pressing this line and this line, and I'm going to pin it. [MUSIC] As you can see, we're creating exactly the same pattern over here. Now we have to do the same process with the other box kits [MUSIC]. Now I will show you how to create the arrow ribbon folding pattern. So we are taking our box kits, we're using our finger which is going inside. Now I'm going to press this line flat, and then this line as well flat. So you can see two small triangles. I'm going to take my pins and pin it. We'll do exactly the same with this second box kit. So I'm putting my finger inside, I'm folding it, I'm pressing this line, and then the other one. I'm taking my pins, and this is how you create an arrow pattern. So we continue doing the same with the other box kits [MUSIC]. Now, I would like to show you how to create a square pattern. We have taken our box kits once again and we're simply going to fold each corner to the center. So I'm folding my very first one, then I'm folding this second corner. I'll take some pins in order to hold it, and then I have to fold those two corners as well. The first one, and the second one. I'm going to pin it. This is exactly how you create a square pattern. After that, you have to iron it and hand stitch it. We'll do the second. I'm folding two corners in the middle. I'm pinning it. I have to do two more , one more. Then you have to continue doing exactly the same with the other box kits. Let's collect our fabric samples [MUSIC]. 22. Ribbon Folding : Inspiration: Hi, I would like to show you now an example of decorative ribbon folding. This is a dress from my collection and it's a very elegant dress and I thought it needs a modern twist so I added decorated ribbon folding on the right side and on the left side. As you can see, I was working with pinch tops, which you've learned today on this course, and I was using black and silver fabric. There's also a nice back detail. There's also decorate a ribbon falling over here, which makes the dress a little bit more interesting. I really hope you liked this example and now you're going to create your own beautiful ribbon-folded fabrics. 23. Summary: We just came to the very end of my fabric manipulation masterclass. In this course, you have learned five different techniques. We started with Shibori bubbles, a heat manipulated technique where you have created a beautiful three-dimensional fabric sample out of synthetic fiber. Then we have learned how to create a sandwich fabric, where we have stitched together three layers of different colors of fabrics and you've created a beautiful structured sample. Later on, you've learned the Article 2 technique called smoking, and you have learned to create arrow pattern and you hand stitched a beautiful three-dimensional template. Then we have moved to tucking where you've created origami tucking example, which was not the easiest one, but I'm sure you've made a beautiful sample. On the very end, we've created a decorated ribbon folding example called pinched off, and you also have seen other examples on how to create beautiful ribbon folded fabrics. I also have shown you different examples and inspiration on how to apply these techniques to ready-made garments or accessories. I'm Dominika Syczynska, a fabric class teacher. I hope you are inspired by this course and you will continue to create, to design, and to explore. I strongly encourage you to experiment, to pick colors, to take risks, and be simply unique. Always design with passion in your heart. Good luck with your designs and I hope I'm going to see you on my other master classes.