Delicate pastel-coloured linen textures by Silva Wischeropp

About "Delicate pastel-coloured linen textures"

by Silva Wischeropp

About the artwork

This delicate linen collage with fabric nets was created in an abandoned nursery in the Botanical Volkspark Blankenfelde-Pankow on 24 March 2018 with the NIKON D90 camera (lens: NIKKOR 80.0-200.0 mm f/2.8).
The fabric was then processed with colour gradients in Photoshop.

The structural composition of the fabric has a decisive influence on its properties. Fabrics are anisotropic in nature. In addition, most fabric structures are asymmetrical, which increases the anisotropy. This means that the mechanical properties of a fabric depend on the direction in which a force is applied. For example, when a tensile load is applied in the warp or weft direction, fabrics only stretch slightly. If, on the other hand, the tensile load acts diagonally, e.g. at 45°, fabrics are very stretchable, even if they are woven from non-stretchable threads.
Fabrics with high thread densities are particularly resistant and hard-wearing. This effect is further enhanced if twisted yarns are used instead of simple yarns. Other important properties of a fabric are the single thread pull-out force and the push strength. The former is the force required to pull the thread out of the fabric parallel to its longitudinal axis. A measure of the push strength is the force required to move a thread perpendicular to the longitudinal axis in the plane of the fabric.[11] The frictional resistance of the thread crossing points located one behind the other, which is determined by the wrap angle at the crossing points and the coefficient of friction, opposes the pulling out of a thread.[12] These two properties are a measure of the manageability of the fabric. The higher both values are, the worse the drapability, i.e. the possibility of moulding into three-dimensional textile structures.