Textile Braille 触觉织物 by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Textile Braille 触觉织物 by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 A' Design Award 银奖 in 纺织品、面料、纹理、图案与织物设计 Competition Category.

银纺织· 2014

Textile Braille 触觉织物

by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Client: Cristina Orozco Cuevas

A' Design Award 银奖 Winner in 纺织 Category

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The Design

About Textile Braille 触觉织物

工业通用提花纺织品被认为是盲人的翻译者。具有良好视力的人可以阅读这种织物，旨在帮助盲人开始失去视力或出现视力障碍；为了学习一种友好且通用的盲文系统材料：织物。它包含字母，数字和标点符号。没有添加颜色。它是一种灰度产品，是不透光的原理。这是一个具有社会意义的项目，不仅限于商业纺织品。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 银奖

Textile Braille 触觉织物是 A' Design Award 银奖得主，这是授予顶级、华美而令人印象深刻的设计的极为崇高的认可。银奖得主是极其卓越、极具创造力的作品，展现出其设计师杰出的专业技能、才华与敏锐。预计Textile Braille 触觉织物将成为一件出色的典范之作，兼具非凡的专业性与深刻的创新性。这件赢得 A' Design Award 银奖的设计是一项备受瞩目、令人钦佩的发明，造福并拓展艺术、科学、设计和技术的边界。Textile Braille 触觉织物是一件令人羡慕的创作，它唤起渴望，带来积极的情感，并激发惊叹与赞叹。

Behind the Design

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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