I took advantage of the "meltable" quality of the fabrics to cut them with the Fabric Master soldering iron or fuse them together to create more relief.
Most of the fabrics of this sample are polyester based. Especially the lightweight ones melt easily.
4a :"fringed
4b: three layers of the same fabric have been "fringed", then fused together with small horizontal slashes
4c: zigzag edge. It would be interesting to see how the stretchy quality of the fabric could be used to move it into curvy shapes fixed by stitching
4d: here the fabric was pleated, then "fixed" by melting the layers together and fuse it onto a synthetic felt
4e: two layers of different fabrics fused together by melting marks
4f: here the fabric was folded before being melted into fringes
4g
4h: this fabric was frayed before cutting shapes into it
4i: here the soldering iron was used to mark the coton based fabric
4j: transparent fabric strip gathered with knotted strips
4k: three layers of different fabrics were fused to create dimension
4l: (left upper corner): a little experiment: the fabric strip was folded to form triangles that were then fused with the soldering iron
4m: zigzag strips cut with soldering iron
4n: three layers of fabric cut with scissors
4o: this non-woven material was pleated before being "cut" to fix the pleats
4p: frayed, then cut into triangle shapes
4q: the fabric strip was "fringed" and slashed with the soldering iron before being twisted.
4r: "fringed" with scissors, the twisted
4s: for these last strips, the fabric has been melted by holding it over a candle. This made the edges melt in a very unpredictable and irregular way and made it curl.
It would be interesting to overlay several of these for more texture.
