Spending long hours, days, weeks and months on trying to complete this project, I have finally reached the end. This has been a very great journey and helped me a lot. I can now proudly say that I have definitely reached the goal in completing and creating a range of products that help explore the culture of UAE more. Each piece of product has its own unique and specific design that was well adjusted and applied on in order to give a meaning to why this design was chosen. Each design had a consistent flow to it and showed a clear beginning and followed to the end. This makes it very easy for the public and possible clients to show what the meaning of each piece of product is from the beginning to the end. Each product had bold designs that clearly perceived a good message.
In conclusion to this project, I had learnt so many new things and got a very interesting and different experience out of it. I got to learn the basics of embroidering which I have always wanted to try, and this project gave me a very great opportunity to explore embroidering. I learned different techniques/styles of embroidering such as back stitch, split stitch, satin stitch, French knot and many more. Before starting on my clothing’s, I had to practice the different styles on a piece of cloth before starting the project. It took me several times to get the different styles correctly, however I got used to it and improved. This project, as well, opened to me another opportunity which was to paint on fabric/ clothing as I have never painted on fabric before since I am mostly specialized on canvases and paper. It was very hard at first because I needed to concentrate a lot on precision as fabric is not smooth, which means that it is very hard to be precise with your designs.
This project helped me understand the global context “Personal and Cultural expressions”. It allowed me to present my ideas and thoughts in a unique way. I expressed my ideas through the learner profiles which represented the way I thought and my knowledge. There are lots of pupils that worked on a similar project idea as me, however we all produced different products since we all think differently and have our own insights on this topic.