Samples

Here are a few of my samples and process I have done.
Most of my fabric samples were dyed using procion dye and then pressed and washed before I printed on them, this caused a few issues when I went to print on the calico, when I washed it and left it to dry it got quite wrinkled and it was hard to print on in places where it didn't lie flat, I did try to flatten it out on the heat press but it didn't do much.
I used mostly pigment inks when I did my screen printing however as I had some dyed backgrounds it made my colours look weak and they weren't the colours they should have been and it was a little disappointed so on a few of my pieces I used permaset, this sits on top of the fabric rather than sinking in like the pigment does.
I did try to do prints on paper but they just didn't work, they moved when I printed on them and the colours were too dark so my pigments didn't show very well, I also noticed that the pigment sort of bubbled on the top on the paper and it looked very messy, I really didn't like the outcome of the aper samples so I did more fabric samples.
I had two attempts at devore, the first i tried it on devore velvet and unfortunately the mixture we had in class wasn't made the right way and it didn't work, I got a chance to try it again and I only did one screen on it as I had such a small piece of fabric, I really liked how t turned out and even though it bled a little and ate away at fibres that it shouldn't have it still looked good, I used procion dye and it really improves the look, if you are printing on devore velvet you must print on the back so it can eat away the fibres.
I had a chance to use puff binder in this project and it worked well, I even coloured some of it and even though it was a lighter colour when I had used the heat gun it still looked really good and worked well.
As a little experiment I decided to use the tyvek I was given at the start of the year, from what i can remember it is a man made material and you can print on it, dye it with busho inks and manipulate it with heat, I did all of these on my piece and although I didn't use all three of my screens I think it looked very good, I think my favourite part was manipulating it with the heat gun, I only had to hold it over part of the material before it would scrunch up slightly.