Martyna Kaczmarek

BA (Hons) Textiles

I am a Polish textile artist with a passion for hand and free-machine embroidery, 3D maquettes and period accurate fashion. Historical garments are a big inspiration for me and finding sources and stories behind them fuel my passion for textiles further.

My projects in the past have been inspired by period accurate fashion and historical events. I use photographs transferred onto fabric and free-machine embroidery to patchwork samples onto garments inspired by a specific time periods or historical event so that the garment or maquette can tell a story.

This project, ‘Anything Goes in the 30’s’ is inspired and based on the hit Broadway musical ‘Anything Goes’ from the 1930’s.

The musical follows the main character, Reno Sweeney, an evangelist turned bar hostess on board of a Europe-bound liner to dissuade her crush Billy Porter from pursuing Hope Harcourt, who is engaged to another man, however Reno ends up helping Billy pursue Hope instead.


Rwy’n artist tecstilau Pwylaidd gydag angerdd am frodwaith llaw a di-beiriant, modelau 3D a ffasiwn sy’n gywir o ran cyfnod. Mae dillad hanesyddol yn ysbrydoliaeth fawr i mi ac mae dod o hyd i ffynonellau a straeon y tu ôl iddynt yn sbarduno fy angerdd am decstilau ymhellach.

Mae fy mhrosiectau yn y gorffennol wedi’u hysbrydoli gan ddigwyddiadau ffasiwn a hanesyddol cywir. Rwy’n defnyddio ffotograffau wedi’u trosglwyddo ar ffabrig a brodwaith di-beiriant ar samplau clytwaith ar ddillad wedi’u hysbrydoli gan gyfnodau hanesyddol penodol neu ddigwyddiad hanesyddol fel y gall y dilledyn neu’r model adrodd stori.

Mae’r prosiect hwn, ‘Anything Goes in the 30’s’ wedi’i ysbrydoli gan y sioe gerdd boblogaidd o’r 1930au ar Broadway, ‘Anything Goes’, ac yn seiliedig arni.

Mae’r sioe gerdd yn dilyn y prif gymeriad, Reno Sweeney, efengylydd sydd wedi troi’n gantores mewn bar ar fwrdd llong sy’n hwylio i Ewrop i geisio rhwystro’r dyn mae hi wedi gwirioni arno, Billy Porter rhag ceisio ennill calon Hope Harcourt, sydd wedi dyweddïo â dyn arall. Fodd bynnag, mae Reno’n helpu Billy i geisio dwyn calon Hope yn lle hynny.


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