the making of a chunky pouffe

I decided to make this pouf on an existing pouffe I had in my house which no one used as this was more of an exploration. This saved money and the life of the piece and also I didn't have time to get a new structure done.

I tried this piece out because I thought it had a lot of potential. I liked the scale model I made in Unit 2 and after my discussion with Simon in the last FPT I wanted to try it out. I started by looking for potential fabrics that I could make the shapes with, starting with Ikat. Ikat is one of my favorite styles of dyeing technique and since it is not a specific motif but the technique of dyeing, you can experiment both in weft and warp and get varied results. However, pure woven ikat has become increasingly harder to source at least the uncommon patterns. I did order a few to try but their quality wasn't good enough for upholstery

Since I started making the pouf 4-5 days before I was supposed to leave for London, I didn't have a lot of time to source fabric. So I decided to do a tie and dye the same way I did for the scale model. I found a really nice boucle kind of fabric from Pure Concepts - a very renowned home furnishing brand by Asian Paints.

I got 1 meter of white boucle and tie and dyed it with acrylic paint and water so that the fur of the boucle does not get hard after drying. I let it sun dry and then ironed it so that the texture remains soft.

I was really happy with the tie and dye. Afterward, I started making the googly shapes with muslin and then the final fabric. The filling inside the shapes was recron fiber.

I did not like the structure after it was done. The mistake I made was that I first stuck the chunky shapes on the base fabric and then upholstered the seat. This stretched out the base fabric a lot and it had too many wrinkles. Also, the base fabric I found was a thing for this kind of work. What I think I could have done is this - I should have made separate chunky shapes with just recron filling in it. Found a thicker fabric and upholstered the seat normally. Then attach the chunky pieces on top of it by either simply gluing it or velcro or stitching it.