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 是 The Fabrick Lab 的创始人,该工作室将面料、电子产品和仿生技术相结合进行创作。 她是英裔中国籍材料学家和 TED 研究员,曾与日产设计欧洲部和诺基亚等公司合作。 她获得的奖项包括 GGEF Eco Innovator Award( GGEF 生态创新奖)和 Design for Asia Gold Award(亚洲设计金奖),其作品曾在伦敦的V&A、TextielMuseum,Tilburg(蒂尔堡纺织品博物馆)和 Moleskine 全球艺廊等多家机构展出。