Woodcroft-Making of a hide

This assignment was to a direct brief which we had to identify and design a specfic need for the wildlife area in Winchmore Hill.

Being a textile designer the obvious solution was to create a hide so that the local community can study the wildlife without disturbing the birds and animals that are around. The picture on the left shows our group from Southgate college at the site with Tony the main organiser of Friends of Woodcroft Wildspace.














To start this project I initially went to the site and did some water colour drawings and some rubbings of the plants in the wildspace. Some of these are shown below:-

Water colour painting

Water colour painting

Rubbings using coloured pencils

Rubbings usung coloured chalk

Rubbings using coloured chalk

Rubbings using coloured pencils

Rubbings using coloured chalk

Water colour painting

Water colour painting

Water colour painting

Water colour painting on part water paper and part sketch book

Water colour painting

Water colour painting

Photocopy of a water colour painting enhanced with chalk

Photocopy of a water colour painting and enhanced with chalk

Above and below are photocopies of two different watercolor paintings cut into strips and mixed together

Woodcroft-Making of a Hide

Cutting material into strips to be slotted into the netting

Netting showing some of the materials added on

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Original material - window net curtain - patterns were heat-transferred. However, the colour was not right

The material is to be fitted on the chair as shown but it needs to be longer. Hence the netting at the top is used.

The chair is adapted with flexible poles to fit the material.