This is where the D&T element came in. Firstly, we knew we wanted children to explore the idea of ‘how to help the world’ and the topic of Textiles.
FIRST IDEA: transferring a whole world diagram onto a piece of either A2 or A3 cotton. We were unsure of sizing, given that the larger the piece of fabric, the more resources we would have to use (contrary to our design brief) , however the A3 sized piece, would possibly be too small of a surface for each group to decorate the world map design.
FINAL IDEA: After plenty of discussions and advice from our lecturers, the two of us decide to divide the world map into it’s continents (russia seperate), and transfer those onto individual pieces of A3 cotton. This would then create a large display of the world, contributed to by both classes – to be shown in the school.
THE PROCESS OF MAKING: the difficulty and positives I faced when transferring the diagrams of the continents onto the cotton.
Using microsoft word, I enlarged and cropped each continent onto a A3 sized document (more time consuming than you can imagine!) I then procceded to halve each continent (as accurately as I could), copy this onto another document (A4 this time), to print onto transfer paper.This was a long process, as there was not A3 transfer paper available.
This was time consuming and needed to be precise in order to match on the larger piece of fabric. I repeated this for each continent, and then to the bubble writing letters.
The images below show the process of ironing on the transfer paper, enlarging and cropping the ‘bubble letters’ for one of the groups and then the final result of the A3 continents.
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