Textile Braille Twal Moun Touche by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Textile Braille Twal Moun Touche by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 A' Design Award Ajan in Tekstil Competition Category.

AjanTekstil· 2014

Textile Braille Twal Moun Touche

by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Client: Cristina Orozco Cuevas

A' Design Award Ajan Winner in Tekstil Category

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The Design

About Textile Braille Twal Moun Touche

Endistriyèl twal jacquard inivèsèl te panse kòm yon tradiktè pou moun ki avèg. Twal sa a ka li pa moun ki gen bon je epi li gen entansyon pou yo ede moun ki avèg ki kòmanse pèdi devan je oswa ki gen pwoblèm vizyon; yo nan lòd yo aprann sistèm nan bray ak yon materyèl zanmitay ak komen: twal. Li gen ladan alfabè a, nimewo ak mak ponktyasyon. Pa gen koulè yo te ajoute. Li se yon pwodwi sou echèl gri kòm yon prensip ki pa gen okenn pèsepsyon limyè. Li se yon pwojè ki gen siyifikasyon sosyal ak ale pi lwen pase tekstil komèsyal yo.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Ajan

Textile Braille Twal Moun Touche se yon ganyan A' Design Award Ajan, yon rekonesans ki gen yon prestij enmans yo bay design nivo siperyè, bèl anpil e enpresyonan. Ganyan Ajan yo se travay ki trè briyan e ki trè kreyatif ki montre ekspètiz, talan ak finès designer yo. Yo atann Textile Braille Twal Moun Touche pou se yon bèl travay modèl, remakab nan pwofesyonalis e ki gen gwo inovasyon. Design sa a ki ganyen A' Design Award Ajan se yon envansyon trè remakab, admire ki pote benefis e ki pouse limit atizay, syans, design ak teknoloji. Textile Braille Twal Moun Touche se yon kreyasyon anpil moun jalou ki reveye dezi, ki pote santiman pozitif e ki limen sipriz ak mèvèy.

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