Making Life more Beautiful
One of things about textile printing is that is sometimes nice to create an absence of colour. You can obviously bleach fabric and get some interesting effects. For this project I used a product called Discharge Paste. Not a nice … Continued
I am making progress with my Mary Ward Centre Opposites project. I printed the four lino blocks in a square, then started to add colour to the other pictures. I am beginning to get the hang of machine embroidery. After … Continued
Want to buy a Fabrickated.com T shirt? Well you can! I didn’t, on this occasion, but I was so impressed by the capability of this YR STORE printing programme that I will go back and do it. To have a … Continued
This week I learnt to embroider using the sewing machine. I had done this once before in about 1985 when a college project required an embroidered waistcoat. The only stitch we were allowed to use was the zig zag stitch. … Continued
One of my favourite bloggers – from whom I learn a great deal – is Luixe who writes The Genealogy of Style. He is a prolific, thorough blogger who comments on modern art, literature, fashion, photography and music. He has … Continued
This post is dedicated to Mrs Mole, who asked for detail on how to do a lino block printed textile. I am delighted to help and warmly welcome any requests or suggestions for blog posts. This technique is very simple … Continued
Here is my project plan – to produce a wardrobe of 11 interchangeable items by the end of April. I am making reasonable progress. I have five items made with only five or six (depending on whether I introduce a … Continued
The Tessellation project has been really good fun, but now I want to make a piece of fabric for a blouse, skirt or dress. I am inspired by the work of Roger Fry and Duncan Grant at the Omega workshop. … Continued
You may remember how we had made patterns from sketches of kitchen implement, then photocopied them, and arranged the tiles. This week our task was to use a range of materials – lino, soft cut plastic, polystyrene blocks, stick backed … Continued
In my printing class we started our tessellation project – what fun! Tessellation is when you fit a regular shape to itself many times, covering the space, like a tiled surface. When printing, creating tiles or doing patchwork and quilting this … Continued