The small lacelightbox is 475 x 310 x 175mm (landscape orientation). It is finished the same way as the other sizes, including the French Cleat hanging system. It is not engraved but I hope to get this done after the MA hand-in. I completed this box first, having decided to use embroidered lace and embroidery on net in layers within the box. The gallery shows some of my experiments with laser cut samples inside the box and layered in different ways
Lace light box with perspex front, showing the colour changing LEDs
Lace light box without perspex front, showing the colour changing LEDs
Lace light box without perspex front, showing the colour changing LEDs
Lace light box without perspex front, testing the effect of hanging single motifs behind the net in front of the colour changing LEDs
Lace light box without perspex front, testing single motifs and showing the colour changing LEDs
Lace light box without perspex front, showing the colour changing LEDs
Lace light box without perspex front,trialling hanging motifs in front of the text layer showing the colour changing LEDs. the shadows were too diffuse to make a difference
Trying out laser cut samples in the small lacelightbox
Sampling the layers behind the perspex
Sampling the layers behind the perspex
Sampling the layers behind the perspex
Experimenting with laser cut samples behind embroidery on net
Experimenting with laser cut samples
Close up of Charnia embroidery on net layer
Close up of large text layer
Close up of large text
Close up of the large text
Close up of large text layer
Close up of small text as brides layer
Close up of small text as brides layer through the perspex. You can see the cotton bobbinet clearly
Small Lacelightbox embroidery ready for the stabiliser to be washed out
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The final layers are (back to front) LEDs, single embroidered motifs, suspended on invisible thread, embroidery on net, perspex.
The embroidery on net comprises three vertical sections, stitched on one single layer of Swiss Tulle cotton bobbinet. From left to right the sections are the Charnia ‘fern’ design, undulating text as brides with single words picked out in phosphorescent thread, and the word ‘Charnia’ as vertical large text embroidery. (See image below)
