Final collection coming together just ordered business cards for New Designers London.24 June 2015.

                                    Photography taken at the Thackray Museum Leeds as part of my research for promotional images for my final collection.

Development work towards final collection,

Final collection coming together,just need to work on embroidery techniques.

Dissertation nearly finished and then I can concentrate on my other work.

Inspiration;

Mental health patients in the early nineteenth century and the institutions such as West Riding Pauper and Lunatic Asylum have inspired my final collection.

I have been analyzing samplers embroidered by a former patient as part of my research for dissertation.

I wanted to find out more about how people were cast and the moral treatments and remedies used to treat mental illness.

It has been a fascinating topic and I have learnt so much about mental illness treatments and the poor squalid conditions in the eighteenth century through to the late nineteenth century when medical procedures and combined therapies where used.   

 

Working on new designs for my final collection for making techniques.Inspired by my dissertation research into a patient at West Riding lunatic asylum during the nineteenth century.