Digital Crafting at CUSTHOM

Abstract

In this paper I will be describing my experience of working with digital technologies as an integral part of my own design studio: CUSTHOM, where my business partner and I design and manufacture wallpapers, fabrics and fine bone china. The core of how we design and make lies in the craft of both digital and hand making; printing by silk screen and block to interpreting stitch weight, direction and length, through digital design programmes for embroidery, to hand metallic foil finishing. Exploiting techniques originally developed for cloth, we re-interpret these methods of making to capitalise on the benefits and potential of making through a combination of analogue and digital techniques.