Skip to content
Textile Braille Тактиль Тукымасы by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Textile Braille Тактиль Тукымасы by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 A' Design Award Көмеш бүләге in Тукыма, Матдә, Текстура, Узор һәм Киемлек Дизайны Competition Category.


КөмешТукыма· 2014

Textile Braille Тактиль Тукымасы

by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Client: Cristina Orozco Cuevas

A' Design Award Көмеш бүләге Winner in Тукыма Category

Colors

The Design

About Textile Braille Тактиль Тукымасы

Сукыр кешеләр өчен тәрҗемәче буларак индустриаль универсаль жаккард текстиль уйлары. Бу тукыманы яхшы күрүчән кешеләр укый ала һәм алар күзләрен югалта башлаган яки күрү проблемасы булган сукырларга ярдәм итү өчен эшләнгән; дустанә һәм уртак материал белән Брайль системасын өйрәнү өчен: тукыма. Анда алфавит, саннар һәм тыныш билгеләре бар. Төсләр өстәлми. Бу соры масштабтагы продукт, яктылык сизмәү принцибы. Бу социаль мәгънәгә ия һәм коммерция тукымалардан читтә торган проект.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Көмеш бүләге

Textile Braille Тактиль Тукымасы – A' Design Award Көмеш бүләге җиңүчесе, бу гадәттән тыш абруйлы танып белү, ул югары класслы, чибәр һәм тәэсирле дизайннарга бирелә. Көмеш җиңүчеләре – үз дизайнерларының искиткеч белемен, талантын һәм үткенлеген күрсәтүче бик ялтыравыклы һәм иҗади эшләр. Textile Braille Тактиль Тукымасы искиткеч, үрнәк булырлык, игътибарга лаеклы профессиональ һәм тирән яңалыклы әсәр булыр дип көтелә. A' Design Award Көмеш бүләге җиңүче бу дизайн – сәнгать, фән, дизайн һәм технология чикләрен алга җигүче файдалы, югары бәяләнгән уйлап табу. Textile Braille Тактиль Тукымасы – күпләрнең көнләшкән, теләкләрне уятучы, уңай хисләр китерүче һәм хәйранлык һәм гаҗәпләнү тудыручы иҗат җимеше.

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

Sponsored

Explore Beyond Designers.org

Discover products, services and opportunities from our advertising partners.

Good Design Deserves Great Recognition

The A' Design Award is an international, juried accolade for good design. Take part in the A' Design Award to get an opportunity to earn meritocratic recognition, gain fame, prestige and publicity for your work. Nominate your work for the A' Design Award and compete for the coveted A' Design Prize.

Nominate