Burnley fashion student heading to India for inspiration (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Burnley fashion student heading to India for inspiration
1:42pm Tuesday 24th January 2012 in Education
NEW COLECTION Carolyn Eastwood
A FASHION student is flying to India to work with some of the country’s up-and-coming designers and artists to produce a new collection.
Eastern fashion design degree student Carolyn Eastwood, will be spending 10 days in Ahmedabad and Bhuj to learn new skills from residency artists at Arts Reverie.
The 21-year-old, from Pike Hill area of Burnley, will also be meeting Indian weavers and blockmakers to find inspiration for her collection as part of her course at the University of Central Lancashire.
Carolyn, who is based in the university’s Burnley campus in Princess Way, will also attend textile workshops and tour the markets, Mosque, and Hindu and Jain temples in Ahmedabad as part of the Cotton Exchange Project visit.
The trip has been organised by North West museums involved in the Global Threads programme.
Global Threads is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme, Stories of the World, which presents new museum exhibitions across the UK created by young people.
Carolyn will represent the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, one of six museums in the North West involved in the project.
And in India she will tour the textiles department of the National Institute of Design and the National Institute of Fashion Technology Textiles.
Carolyn said: “I’m really excited about visiting India to see for myself how cotton is made and meet local weavers and blockmakers.
“The whole trip is research for my final collection, which focuses on Islamic art, and I’m hoping to source my material and have printing blocks made whilst in India.”
Carolyn initially worked with the Harris Museum and Art Gallery on the Global Threads exhibition that ran last year and showcased the individual work of students at Burnley campus about textile manufacturing of India.
The former Walshaw High School pupil is considering training as a teacher after she graduates.
And she is also looking to set up her own business making handmade products.
