Block Candy / Gone Wild

Amayah Meas
Textile/Surface Design

About this Item

Title
Block Candy / Gone Wild
Contributor Name
Meas, Amayah (Creator, Designer)
Kleinman, Nomi (Instructor)
Jeyaveeran, Ruth (Instructor)
Date
2025
Summary
Block Candy is a Bauhaus inspired pocket weave collection using block weave threading structures. Designed for tabletop and related textiles, this collection uses a variety of compound weaves, scale, layout, and yarns for a diversified product mix. Drafts incorporate an additional third pick for added interest and complexity.
Gone Wild is a collection of CAD prints and wovens for women's loungewear and accessories. The designs feature botanical motifs and textures both reimagined with and inspired by human biological characteristics, representing humans’ everlasting influence and possession of earth’s precious resources.
Type
Still Image
Format
Black Candy: Designed using Pointcarre software, woven on computerized AVL Loom
Gone Wild: Weaves designed using Pointcarre software and woven on computerized AVL looms. Prints designed in Adobe Photoshop and digitally printed on canvas and linen.
Medium
Computer-aided design (process)
Description
Program/Degree: Textile/Surface Design BFA
Course: TD 334 Complex Dobby Wovens; TD 313 Advanced Photoshop and Illustrator
Academic semester: Fall 2024
Professors: Nomi Kleinman (TD334); Ruth Jeyaveeran (TD313)
Relation
Website
Instagram
Rights
In Copyright
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Identifier
FIT Repository ID: sd_000184

Citation

Meas, A. (2025). Block Candy / Gone Wild. FIT Institutional Repository. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/618622
Meas, Amayah. Block Candy / Gone Wild. 2025. FIT Digital Repository, https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/618622
Meas, Amayah. "Block Candy / Gone Wild." FIT Digital Repository, 2025. https://institutionalrepository.fitnyc.edu/item/618622