The Withering Flower
The Withering Flower is a celebration of the power of the flower image. The flower is a popular subject written as personification in Chinese literature. In contrast to the blooming flower’s popularity, images of the decaying flower are often associated with jinx and taboos. The collection looks at what shapes a community’s perception on what is sublime and abject. Designed in 100cm to 200cm length of tulle dresses, silkscreen printing on translucent mesh fabrics, the textile technique allows the prints to stay opaque and stretchy on mesh, creating an appearance of prints afloat in the air.
The Withering Flower Printed Textile by Tsai Jung Chiang was featured as a creative illustration of fashion design by the A' Design Award & Competition. The Withering Flower Printed Textile won the Silver A' Design Award in Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design in 2020. The A' Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Award is an international, juried, academic and meritocratic design prize which celebrates excellent design of structural fabric, engineered cloth, smart textiles, technical textiles, woven fabric, jacquard fabric, tapestries and more.
