Textile Braille Dhar Taabasho by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Textile Braille Dhar Taabasho by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award in Naqshadeynta Marooyin, Dharka, Muuqaalka iyo Qaababka Competition Category.

LacagMarooyin· 2014

Textile Braille Dhar Taabasho

by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Client: Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award Winner in Marooyin 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 Dhar Taabasho

Warshadda dharka casriga ah ee loo yaqaan 'jacquard textile' ayaa loo maleynayaa inuu turjubaan u yahay dadka indhaha la '. Dharkaan waxaa aqrin kara dadka aragga wanaagsan leh waxaana loogu talagalay iyaga inay caawiyaan dadka indhaha la 'ee bilaabaya inay lumiyaan aragga ama kuwa qaba dhibaatooyinka aragga; si loo barto habka loo yaqaan 'braille system' oo ah maaddo saaxiibtinimo leh oo la wadaago: dhar. Waxay ka kooban tahay alifbeetada, nambarada iyo calaamadaha xarfaha Midabyo laguma dari karo. Waa soosaar cabbir ahaan cawlan oo mabda 'ahaan u ah aragtida iftiinka. Waa mashruuc leh macno bulsheed isla markaana dhaafsiisan dharka ganacsiga.

The Recognition

About the Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award

Textile Braille Dhar Taabasho waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf aad u sarreeya oo la siiyo naqshado heerka ugu sarreeya oo quruxsan oo soo jiidasho leh. Guuleystayaasha Lacagta waa shaqooyin aad u dhalaalaya iyo hal-abuur sare leh oo muujiya khibrad, hibo iyo hufnaan naqshadeeyayaashooda. Textile Braille Dhar Taabasho waa shaqo la filayo inay noqoto shaqo quruxsan oo tusaale ah, xirfad cad leh oo hal-abuur qoto dheer leh. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award waa hal-abuur aad loo dareemo oo la ammaano, waxtar leh oo hormariya xuduudaha farshaxanka, sayniska, naqshadaynta iyo tignoolajiyada. Textile Braille Dhar Taabasho waa hal-abuur dad badan ay doonayaan, kicisa rabitaanno, keena dareenno wanaagsan oo abuura yaab.

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