Press!

Sarah's collection was featured in the Autumn 2010 issue of COVER: modern carpets and textiles for interiors in an article called Hidden London: The next designers to know, written by Lucy Upward.

The article showcases eight of London's emerging designers.

Puddle of Light won the 2010 Texprint Prize for Breaking New Ground, which saw the collection exhibited in Paris, at Indigo and then in Hong Kong at Interstoff Asia.

http://www.texprint.org.uk/

http://www.texprint.org.uk/index.php/awards/

http://www.texprint.org.uk/2010/winners_2010.htm

Sarah talking to Peter Copping, Creative Director at Nina Ricci, who judged and awarded the prize. The award was donated by Pentland Group plc.

ARTSTHREAD have also featured us!..... http://blog.artsthread.com/2010/07/texprint-2010-winners/

There are also articles about us on MyFashionConnect and Knitting Industry.com:

http://myfashionconnect.blogspot.com/2010/07/texprint-announce-2010-textile-design.html

http://www.knittingindustry.com/articles/959.php

A group photo taken at the First View show, which took place in the Triangle space at Chelsea College of Art and Design. From left: Elena Munoz - Knit Prize, Rebecca Pheonix Lu - Print Prize, Andrew Boyd - Colour Prize, Holly Bradley Gill - Weave Prize, Sarah Podlesny - Breaking New Ground Prize and Andrew Stevenson, winner of the Interior Fashion Prize and the Chairmans Prize.

This picture was taken on the night of the awards ceremony at Indigo, Premier Vision, Paris in September 2010. The prizes were awarded by Louise Trotter, Creative Director of Joseph.

Puddle of Light

A collection inspired by the natural iridescence of oil puddles and bubble surfaces, each fabric is affected in different ways by the presence of light.

Depending on the viewpoint and position of the light source, dramatic changes can be seen in the colour of the fabrics and their levels of translucency, some even appearing to emit light of their own.

These images are of one fabric from four different viewpoints.

Below is another fabric from two viewpoints, one is backlit, the other is not. The yarn is handmade, and the image is printed onto the yarn prior to weaving.

This piece below is hand woven, again with the image hand printed onto the yarn before it is wove. The image begins to appear as the fabric is being woven. Then it is lasercut and backlit to look like tiny dots of light on the surface of the fabric.

A woven oil puddle...

The piece below is shot twice, once with back lighting and once with front lightling. This causes two very different effects. When lit from the back, it turns purple, and when lit from the front it reflects light back at the light source, in the same way cyclists safety jackets do.

Another reflective piece...

The next images show how different the fabric looks when it is reflecting and when it is not.