About me

Amelia Boyes is a contemporary textile designer for luxury womenswear fashion fabrics. Amelia specialises in numerous textile processes combining them together. The processes she uses range from hand woven techniques, CAD embroidery/machine embroidery with hand embellishments and laser techniques. Although she uses hand woven traditional craft methods she adopts a contemporary feel to all her work, by using bold colour palettes with a regard for complimentary and contrasting colours, and new innovative processes that have come around due to technological advances in the textile/fashion industry. By utilising these traditional and contemporary processes together, it shows off her diverse skillset. Amelia’s practical work usually involves the use of grids and block geometrics combined with some smaller organic aspects. This contrast comes through in many of her projects, which highlights different areas from her initial inspiration, as she strives to incorporate different scales, compositions, negative/positive spacing and colour proportions. These aspects always come from her initial imagery, exhibition visits and first-hand experiences. To create an innovative/individual collections, Amelia always takes her own initial imagery at the start of each project, influencing experiments and initial drawings in response to key imagery.

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Projects

• DISGUISED BURTALISMDisguised Brutalism is revolved around the perceptions of the 1960's architectural movement that can now be perceived as 'ugly'. This project focuses on abstracting fundamental shapes and linear qualities, to create new motifs, which have disguised this movement into a luxury Autumn/Winter womenswear collection. 'Geometric', 'repetition' and 'texture' are three key words which are portrayed within Amelia's primary imagery and her final samples show this in response to her initial imagery and drawings. Although her motifs show repetition, Amelia's work method is influenced by innovative surface qualities, therefore she experiments with scale, colour proportions, negative/positive spacing and different compositions. Throughout this project Amelia shows a great aspect of experimentation and exploration and this shows that she is not afraid to try new techniques or combine processes together. Overall, this project shows attention to detail in a collection of precise luxury fashion fabrics.
• MICRO INSECT FORMATIONSMicro insect formations is centered around textures, shapes and outlines from looking at mainly butterflies, but also moths and beetles. My initial imagery/research came from three exhibitions; The Butterfly House at the Natural History Museum, The Bournemouth Natural Science Society and Creatures and Creations. This project has incorporated both organic and geometric motifs which has created a contrast within my collection showing variety. This collection shows perfected specialist skills, which are hand woven techniques combined with CAD embroidery, hand embellishment and laser techniques. This collection showcases a range of skills used in a complex and experimental way, disguising insects into a luxury Autumn/Winter womenswear collection.

Skills

• Textile Design
• Fashion Design
• Digital Embroidery
• Hand Weaving
• Laser Cutting
• Surface Pattern