Textile Braille Masana'anta by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Textile Braille Masana'anta by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 Kyautar A' Design Award ta Azurfa in Masaku Competition Category.

AzurfaMasaku· 2014

Textile Braille Masana'anta

by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Client: Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Kyautar A' Design Award ta Azurfa Winner in Masaku Category

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The Design

About Textile Braille Masana'anta

Masana'antar gama gari ta masana'antar jacquard ta zama mai fassara ga makaho. Mutanen da suke da kyakkyawar gani za su iya karanta wannan masana'anta kuma an yi niyyarsu ne don taimaka wa makaho waɗanda suke fara gani da ji ko wahalar hangen nesa; don koyon tsarin braille tare da abokantaka da kayan abu na yau da kullun: masana'anta. Ya ƙunshi haruffa, lambobi da alamun alamun rubutu. Ba a ƙara launuka. Samfuri ne akan sikelin launin toka a matsayin ka’idar rashin fahimtar haske. Shiri ne wanda ke da ma'anar zamantakewa kuma ya wuce rubutun kasuwanci.

The Recognition

About the Kyautar A' Design Award ta Azurfa

Zanen Textile Braille Masana'anta ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Azurfa, wata karramawa mai tsananin daraja da ake bai wa zane-zane na matakin koli, masu kyau sosai kuma masu burgewa. Waɗanda suka lashe kyautar Azurfa ayyuka ne masu haske sosai da ƙirƙira mai yawa waɗanda ke nuna ƙwarewa, baiwa da kaifin tunanin masu zanensu. Ana sa ran zanen Textile Braille Masana'anta ya zama aiki mai ban mamaki, abin koyi, mai ƙwarewa sosai kuma mai ƙirƙire-ƙirƙire mai zurfi. Wannan zane da ya lashe Kyautar A' Design Award ta Azurfa ƙirƙira ce mai abin lura sosai, da ake sha'awa, wacce ke amfanar da kuma kai iyakokin fasaha, kimiyya, zane da fasahar zamani gaba. Zanen Textile Braille Masana'anta ƙirƙira ce da ake yi wa hassada sosai wacce ke tada sha'awa, tana kawo jin daɗi kuma tana haifar da mamaki da al'ajabi.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Industrial weave thought as a transalator for blinded people or visually impaired.This fabric can be read by people with good sight and it is intended for them to help blinded people or people that are starting to have vision problems to make a progress while learning at the same time. It is developed on greys because it applies the principle of no light perception. it contains alphabet, numbers, punction marks and more.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width of 1.40 meters. Rapport repeat: 35 cm width x 27 cm height
Tags: Jacquard, braille, fabric, blind sight, textile, grey, educational, textile, socially friendly, identity
Production Technology: Polyester dyed in black and grey yarns woven in electronic jacquard looms. Sandwich special weave technique, satines and tafeta weaves.
Design Challenge: The first test to do a textile was using just some techniques of yarns with different thickness. The result was weak so the project stopped untill I found a technique of weaves that uses three yarns on three layers. The most important layer is the last one, because it uses a very thick yarns which pushes the middle yarn. The principal yarn uses very opened weaves so it allows to make the volume visible and touchable. All the horizontal yarns had to be tors threads because without them the fabric could have hook problems with machines.
Research: I made for months a research on weave techniques and yarns interaction in order to get the aproppiate volume in order to work for real not just for a prototype.I presented to a special organization for blinded people and they said it really work and people could read the points or cells in grey. Also it was easy for the interpreter to get close to braille language. It can be calisified as a non-commercial textile but it can be used on campaigns even woven with colors to support entities or organizations.
Inspiration: The inspiration starts to find other more friendly materials to instruct and learn the braille system than paper and metal plaques, using and studying the braille system of six points or cells.
Project Duration: This project started in November, 2010 and finished in april, 2011. It has been exhibited in Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Central de Diseño, Matadero-Madrid, Zaragoza, Perú and Ecuador.
Operation Flow: The people with difficulty of sight learn the alphabet by touching the six points of the braille reading from left to right. The helper reads the letters and touches too the braille. The idea accomplished is that people with low resources that cannot acces to special attention in order to learn can have a piece of fabric on their own placea. Fabrics are more frienfly to touch than paper or metal.
Team Members: Cristina Orozco Cuevas