An Alternative Sample Room | Elaine Yan Ling Ng / The Fabrick Lab

In a conventional textile sample room, customers are presented with flat textile swatches. But given that textiles are almost always applied to three-dimensional surfaces, ought a sample room not reflect that? In her installation for Knit!, British-Chinese material scientist Elaine Yan-Ling Ng offers an alternative form of sample display, one in where each textile is presented folded, pinched, draped or creased, thereby showing off the material possibilities of each individual knitted textile. Ng brought her knitted Razzle Dazzle textile swatches to life by mounting and laminating them onto materials such as aluminium, stainless steel, wire, PVC, and bamboo. Each swatch thereby becomes a mock-up of how the textile might look when applied to real-world objects.

Elaine Yan Ling Ng / The Fabrick Lab

Elaine Yan Ling Ng は、テキスタイル、エレクトロニクス、バイオミミクリーの融合に取り組む Fabrick Lab の設立者です。 英国系中国人の素材学者で TED フェローの彼女は、Nissan Design Europe、Nokia といった企業と協働してきました。 GGEF Eco Innovator Award、Design for Asia Gold Award 等の賞に輝いた他、ロンドンのV&A、TextielMuseum、Tilburg、Moleskine グローバルギャラリーをはじめとする美術館や施設で作品が展示されています。