Jingting Wang Portfolio 2022-2024

Jingting Wang

jwang23@risd.edu

+1 (401) 523 - 9152

Jingting is an undergraduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in textiles with drawing concentration. This portfolio showcases her exploration of the use of color, materials, and structure in textiles, including knitting, weaving, pattern design, and silkscreen printing.

1.1 Industrial Knitting

2024

Cotton, Merino, Mohair, Polyaster, Viscose, Nylon,

Monofilament, Elastic

Stoll, M1+

Experimenting full rib pointelle, pocket making, interlock structure

Experimenting pointelle and interlock structure

Spacer Fabrics

This series of samples explored the spacer structure using M1+ programming. By testing different densities of tucking stitches and varying the filler material from thinner monofilament to thicker synthetic yarns.

I created a range of spacer fabrics with varying thicknesses and textures. Incorporating different trucking sequence and ottoman/ float structure into the spacer design also made the fabrics foldable.

Milano Ribs with reflective yarn

Application Sketch

I was interested in creating durable, sturdy, stretchy, and dimensional fabrics by experimenting with spacer fabrics, interlock structures, and Milano ribs.

Therefore, I grabbed a few samples that I developed from the collection and knitted them with variations in materials, color combinations, and scale of the repeat. Eventually, the group of samples that I developed was used in this application sketch of a backpack that is fully reflective in the front, with a spacer fabric as the back support.

1.2 Bean Bag

2022 cotton, wool, tencil, chenille singlebed machine knitted

This bean bag is made out of single bed machine knitting fabrics. Punch cards, and tuck structure were used to achieve particular patterns. The material that were used are all soft and durable so that this bean bag is inviting and comfortable as a home soft good.

1.3 Machine Knitting Swatches

2023 superwash merino, mohair, cotton, beads doublebed machin knitted

The collection of double-bed machine knitted swatches showed the comforting intamacy and glossiness texture that knitted fabrics can create. Racking, slipping, tucking, and inlay were used to achieve the desired texture for each fabrics, inspired by the observational paintings of landscape and nature objects around me.

1.4 Crescent Top & Accessories

This project is a continuation of the collection of the double bed knitted fabrics. Instead of designing knit structure, this project was more focused on shaping, and applying my own fabric to an actual wearable pieces.

2.1 Equilibrium

2023 wool, cotton eight harness double weave, shadow weave with 8 shafts floor loom

This wall hanging/space divider is an installation piece that explore the relationship between woven textile and the interior space. The use of mixing wool and fine cotton shows the heavy condense texture while remains the slight color change in a delicate way. Technically, I designed a special draft so that I can achieve the effect of being able to weave specific dark strips as double weave while having shadow weave on the bottom layer.

2.2 24 Shafts Weaving Samples

cotton, merino, polyester

Programmed with Weave Point, woven with 24 Shafts Dobby Looms

Weaving with two layers of warps on Dobby looms, using different materials, allowed the fabric to pleat after felting in the dryer since the wool pulled in the polyester layer on the top.

The plain weave structure maintained the balance between warp and weft while showing the variation among different weft colors.

Peter Steinhauer, TIN HAU SHEER COCOON, HONG KONG - 2013

By using the Pique threading method, I was able to weave more complicated image-based patterns.

After revising my drawings of repeated geometric patterns and translated them into a repeated pattern for woven fabrics.

Experimenting with the deflective weft pattern overlapping, and fancy twill weave

weft structure, weave structure.

Experimenting with the possibilities of color illusion by pleating with alternative colors, creating contrasting surface texture with warp floats, and making color gradations.

2.3 Other Weaving Samples

2023-2024 cotton, found fabrics, wool, polyester, chenille, paper yarn, monofilament, metal wire

woven with 4 shafts, 8 shafts floor looms

3.1 Digital Pattern Design

2022-2023 hand paint/draw motifs with Photoshop

This pattern is designed as a fourway repeat in a delightful color palette. The motifs are inspired by the daily objects in my bedroom. The application of this patterns are bedroom accessories.

This pattern is designed for curtains that are translucent so that the living area can still get enough light while maintaining privacy. The butterfly motifs are inspired by a Chinese tale from Mengzi called The Butterfuly Dream.

The elements of these pattens are all inspired by my dreams.

To show the sense of quietness, all the patterns are designed in a low-contrast, soft color pallet.

3.2 Myth of the Courtyard

2023 Discharged on dyed fabric, gold foil silkscreen printed

This traditional designing repeat, a mysterious

silkscreen printed fabric was inspired by the traditional temple architectural forms in China. By designing the pattern as a continuous seamless strait repeat, I achieved the atmosphere of lingering around in mysterious garden alone.

Jingting Wang 2023