For this chapter, I have made a few samples of slips created from digital images. I decided to use two methods - printing onto printer-ready fabrics and using Ario transfer paper.
I started with one of my flower drawings from an earlier chapter and tried combining lots of copies, coming up with the image in photo 1.
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I printed this onto cotton - it came out in lovely clear colours but didn't seem to lend itself to being cut up for slips. I liked it so much as a piece of fabric that I reworked the image into a pattern repeat, uploaded it to
Spoonflower for printing and ordered a sample. It will be a couple of weeks before it arrives but I am hoping it will be a cheerful summer print.
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Photo 2 Here I used single copies of the flower printed onto silk which gives much more faded colours. I found that the act of cutting them out gave a hard edge that I thought spoilt the drawing so I tried to overcome this. On the left, I have free machined over the slip colouring in the flower and going over the edge. On the right, I used an embellisher to attach and distress the flowers. The background for both samples are some embellisher samples from my collection. I chose these to suggest flowers on a trellis or stake, continuing the theme from some of the chapter 5 samples.
Photo 3 For the next two samples, I used as backgrounds some monoprints I made last summer (featured in
this blog post). 2p coin in the corner for scale.
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Some of the flower head images from earlier work printed onto transfer paper and ironed onto scraps of printed fabric which were then stitched onto a printed silk background - I thought the pattern reminiscent of a winding path and trellis. I added a few painted details to the flowers after transferring.
Photo 4
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For this one, I thought it would be fun to combine the 'flowers on a trellis' theme with my course theme of 'machinery and industrial landscape.' I printed small copies of one of my pylon photos from module 1 and transferred them onto more monoprinted scraps. The stitching they are trapped in is layers of a digitised version of the same photo - something I had played with a while ago but not used. Photo 5 is a close up to show the stitching more clearly.
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Photo 6 Back to flowers - this time using unaltered photos. The flower head is double-sided - on the outside rose petals and inside the unidentified flower I used in chapter 3. I transferred the images onto some stiff fabric that can be manipulated when wet and retains it shape, then bonded them together and moulded the shape over a fingertip. Underneath is the same image transferred onto a drinks can - it came out indistinctly but I liked the grungy effect enough to keep it. I mounted the two pieces onto some mulberry bark and a dressmaking remnant backed with pelmet vilene, and stitched them down with french knots.
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Photo 7 is a sideways on shot to show the outside of the flower.
2 comments:
How different these look from one another.I'd be interested to see your "spoonflower" fabric.
Your flower print samples are so interesting and varied Jane. I am such a wimp and nervous of using my printer with fabric but will have to pluck up the courage one day!
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