Textile Braille Tecido Tátil by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Textile Braille Tecido Tátil by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 A' Design Award de Prata in Design Têxtil, Tecidos, Texturas, Padrões e Panos Competition Category.

PrataTêxtil· 2014

Textile Braille Tecido Tátil

by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Client: Cristina Orozco Cuevas

A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Têxtil Category

48,586

Verified Award Winner

Verify Award Status for #30206

Visit Site View at A' Design Award Press Release Award Badge

Colors

The Design

About Textile Braille Tecido Tátil

O têxtil universal industrial jacquard é considerado um tradutor para pessoas cegas. Esse tecido pode ser lido por pessoas com boa visão e destina-se a ajudar as pessoas cegas que estão começando a perder a visão ou ter problemas de visão; para aprender o sistema braille com um material amigável e comum: o tecido. Ele contém o alfabeto, números e sinais de pontuação. Nenhuma cor é adicionada. É um produto em escala de cinza como princípio de não percepção da luz. É um projeto com significado social e vai além dos têxteis comerciais.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Prata

Textile Braille Tecido Tátil conquistou o A' Design Award de Prata, um reconhecimento extraordinariamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de topo de gama, deslumbrantes e impressionantes. Os vencedores da Prata são obras tremendamente brilhantes e extremamente criativas que ilustram a perícia, o talento e a acuidade excecionais dos seus designers. Espera-se que Textile Braille Tecido Tátil seja uma obra maravilhosa e de referência, notavelmente profissional e profundamente inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Prata é uma invenção muito notável e admirada, que beneficia e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. Textile Braille Tecido Tátil é uma criação imensamente invejada que desperta desejos, traz sentimentos positivos e faz nascer espanto e deslumbramento.

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