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This practice-led research reformulated the traditional Devoré textile print process using safer, less hazardous approaches, demonstrating that environmentally responsible innovation can preserve historically significant textile techniques within contemporary studio practice.
The journal article focuses on the invention of a new generative participatory design process that uses Tasseography. It is a ritualistic, participatory, performance process that implements a new set of generative tools that promotes a shared language between myself and my participants resulting in a collection of co-designed abstract textile artworks.