Striped Robe

The idea for the kaftan-like garment, titled Striped Robe, is the result of a presentation given by the designers at Duke University’s Nasher Museum in Durham NC, in conjunction with “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone sisters of Baltimore”. In fall of 2012, the codesigners were invited to give a presentation on the relationship between textile heiresses Claribel and Etta Cone, and the sisters’ patronage of Matisse and other emerging artists during the first half of the twentieth century

Pixie Flower

The objective when designing this fully-fashioned garment, titled Pixie Flower, was to explore visual color mixing in electronic jacquard knitting. Visual color mixing was employed in this research to optimize the amount of colors that can be achieved with a four yarn color machine set up. In jacquard knitting, each additional yarn color adds time and cost to the product development process, due in part to yarn dyeing and the need for an additional yarn carrier for the knitting machine set-up

Dharma Adharma

The designer’s objective for the creation of this 5mm silk habotai kaftan was to mimic the look of hand painted silk utilizing the technology of reactive inkjet printing. The designer conducted contemporary color and motif trend research using WGSN

Pixie Flower

The objective when designing this fully-fashioned garment, titled Pixie Flower, was to explore visual color mixing in electronic jacquard knitting. Visual color mixing was employed in this research to optimize the amount of colors that can be achieved with a four yarn color machine set up. In jacquard knitting, each additional yarn color adds time and cost to the product development process, due in part to yarn dyeing and the need for an additional yarn carrier for the knitting machine set-up.</p

Striped Robe

The idea for the kaftan-like garment, titled Striped Robe, is the result of a presentation given by the designers at Duke University’s Nasher Museum in Durham NC, in conjunction with “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone sisters of Baltimore”. In fall of 2012, the codesigners were invited to give a presentation on the relationship between textile heiresses Claribel and Etta Cone, and the sisters’ patronage of Matisse and other emerging artists during the first half of the twentieth century.</p

Dharma Adharma

The designer’s objective for the creation of this 5mm silk habotai kaftan was to mimic the look of hand painted silk utilizing the technology of reactive inkjet printing. The designer conducted contemporary color and motif trend research using WGSN.</p

Data from X-ray crystallographic analysis and DFT calculations on isomeric azo disperse dyes

X-ray crystallography and DFT calculations were used to characterize the molecular nature and excited state properties of isomeric photostable azo dyes for textile fibers undergoing extensive sunlight exposure. Structural data in CIF files arising from X-ray analysis are reported and the complete files are deposited with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre as CCDC 1548989 (https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/structures/Search?Ccdcid=1548989) and CCDC 1548990 (https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/structures/Search?Ccdcid=1548990). Data from calculating the vertical electronic excitation of 20 excited states for each dye and from calculating excited state oxidation potential (ESOP) and Frontier HOMO/LUMO isosurfaces are also presented. This data is related to the article “Molecular and excited state properties of isomeric scarlet disperse dyes” (Lim et al., 2018) [1]