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Textiles (MA)

Fei Liu

Fei Liu (b.1999) is a textile designer specialising in using knit techniques to create samples and products that explore different senses of touch to influence people's emotions.

She graduated with a first-class Bachelor's degree from London College of Fashion where she developed her knitting skills. She is currently focusing on how textiles interact with people through making interior knitted healing products, to exploring the possibilities and opportunities of knitted textiles.

She developed her interest in the interaction of materials and people to analyse the relationship between human and objects from different perspectives. Fei aims to provide a sensory experience to an audience who for example experience anxiety or are autistic.


Award:

2022/Xinao Knitting Emerging Designer Competition/Champion Award

Portrait

Knit Rejuvenation - Exploring the healing of touch

Knit rejuvenation is focused on using knitting and wet felt to create a series of interior products with different senses of touch to provide an assemble action as sensory interaction to heal people’s emotions. 

Fei mainly used knitted stripes with different textures to inspire people to touch and play. Being given new energy through the knitted objects – the interaction and process of assembling and disassembling, people gain a feeling of relaxation during the concentration of the connection with knitted objects. 

 
Stop motion animation with healing products
sample1
sample2
Assemble knitted stripes with weaving structure/Crochet stripes to get a different way of assembly
sample detail
sample3
Disassemble process
sample3
Knit magnet inside to get a new assemble way
sample
sample
More sensory touch with wool felt and knitted texture
sample7
sample7
More sensory touch with ripple and 3d filling
sample6
sample
Simulate puzzle action with wool felt and filling

Medium:

Feather, elastic, tinsel, cotton, wool felt
sketch
sketch
sketch
 
Sensory stress products with multicolor and textures