Jette Muuss
Textile Design BA Hons
Central Saint Martins UAL
Specialisms: Textiles - Knit / Textiles for Fashion /
Location: London, United Kingdom
Jette Muuss
First Name: Jette
Last Name: Muuss
Specialisms: Textiles - Knit / Textiles for Fashion
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program Title: Textile Design BA Hons
About
As a textile designer specialising in knitting, I am interested in exploring the contrast between lace-like, organic fluidity and rigid, geometric structure that can be achieved through knit. By incorporating secondary materials such as fabrics and particularly leather, I intend to showcase the versatility of the traditional craft and push for an innovative application of its processes in an unexpected and contemporary manner, creating fabrics that are both wearable and experimental. Working predominantly with natural fibres such as wool and cotton, I make it a priority to source all my materials from deadstock in an effort to create responsibly and avoid waste. At the moment I am finishing my Bachelor's Degree in Textile Design at the University of the Arts, Central Saint Martins in London, where I am working on "Sundays in Worpswede" a project centred around escapism and folkloristic dress, inspired by the artists colony of "Worpswede" in Lower Saxony.
The inspiration for my final major project is the artist’s colony in Worpswede, that was established around the turn of the 19th century in the “Teufelsmoor” (Devil’s moor) in Lower Saxony, Germany not far from where I grew up. Prolific painters, illustrators, and poets settled in the rural village, seeking the creative and intellectual exchange with like-minded artists, creating artworks fuelled by the natural landscapes that surrounded them. I am interested in how the artists represented the local landscapes and people, oscillating between sober realism and melancholic reverie, returning to, and reproducing certain motifs repeatedly. In doing so they raised their subject into a realm of almost mythological dimension, developing a distinct subjectivity that can be described as “weltfremd”. “Weltfremdheit” describes a certain detachment from and delusion about the world and could literally be translated as foreignness to the world or even unworldliness. I am exploring this idea of the romanticisation and idealisation of nature as a form of escapism in times of great uncertainty and political tensions- the complete devotion to the idea of capturing the idyl. Through analogue photography I am carefully curating and producing primary imagery, that explores how I myself, can capture a highly idealised and distorted version of my immediate surroundings, blending familiar interior spaces with the natural world outside. Inspired by the dark and oily peat that characterizes the natural landscape of Worpswede I am experimenting with incorporating leather into the knitting as both embellishment and structural support. This material-led process of experimentation should eventually lead to a product outcome situated within the context of fashion / knitwear, drawing from my research into local forms of traditional dress and lacework.
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