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Female Friendship: Strength Found Through Support

Stater, Lydia M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525691709141172

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2018, BFA, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Fashion.
The research and visual experimentations included in Female Friendship: Strength Found Through Support explore the evolving nature of female friendships and the impact that friendships have on a female’s life––in the form of an seven look fashion collection. The most intimate and tenuous relationships in a woman’s life are typically with her female friends. With the integration of the Internet and social media into twenty-first century human interactions and friendships, there is a considerable amount of research to uncover in the nature of relationships. The following research touches upon the psychology in female friendships, and what has changed in the dynamics of friendship in the last several centuries. After researching visual iterations of female friendships, the continuous repeated image of various girls and women braiding each other’s hair, throughout many cultures, was interpreted in a hand-sewn smocking technique throughout the collection to mimic a braid. A girlish childhood symbol of friendship, the “friendship bracelet”, is researched and included in a textile exploration in the form of hand drawn/designed laser cut acrylic pieces and hand woven bracelet ties that create a colorful, tactile textile relating friendship to memory and childhood. The conclusive visual research within the collection is illustrated in a literal, visual compilation of a fabric print composed of hand-written personal experiences and accounts from sixteen women that I surveyed, entailing varying excerpts of the many experiences with the female friendships in their lives, printed on different fabrics and included in many different pieces of the collection.
Linda Ohrn (Advisor)
Sara Snyder (Committee Member)
Janice Yoder (Committee Member)
Brett Tippey (Committee Member)
47 p.
Design; Fine Arts; Textile Research
fashion design; friendship; women; feminism; smocking; digital printing; laser cutting; vinyl; draping; hand made; tulle; fashion collection; textile development; floral print; painting; color; tufting

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  • Stater, L. M. (2018). Female Friendship: Strength Found Through Support [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525691709141172

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stater, Lydia. Female Friendship: Strength Found Through Support. 2018. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525691709141172.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stater, Lydia. "Female Friendship: Strength Found Through Support." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525691709141172

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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© 2018, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Female Friendship: Strength Found Through Support by Lydia M Stater is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Kent State University Honors College and OhioLINK.