Group Task, Printing Our Length
Today we had out session in the print room, printing our group length. This was a very technical task, involving a lot of measuring and lining up, so our layered print would print as smoothly as possible, and would hopefully create a perfect layered print. This involved lining up the print pegs and masking the edges of the screens, so there would be no marks on the fabric.
After doing this we had to mix our colours. Because we were creating a large scale length, one of the tutors suggested that we use acid dyes on our silk instead of reactive dyes. This is because the acid dyes give a more vibrant colour on the silk. However, when experimenting with dyes and choosing our colour schemes we used reactive dyes,so when we came to mix our colours for our length we had to experiment a little to obtain the colours we had before...
15g of acid red : 500g of print paste.
12g of acid Navy : 500g of print paste.
Then we were ready to print. we put our first screen down on our fabric and printed, but some of the design smudged leaving blotches. We were told there could be a number of reasons because of this so we checked the screen to make sure it was ok and were careful when we next printed it not to put so much dye down. When we printed it the second time the print came out fine, which even confused the tutor. Perhaps the fabric was a little damp?
From here, we repeated the print until we had finished both layers of the desgn, images displayed below. I think the design looked absolutely amazing, the blue and red worked very well together.
After doing this we had to mix our colours. Because we were creating a large scale length, one of the tutors suggested that we use acid dyes on our silk instead of reactive dyes. This is because the acid dyes give a more vibrant colour on the silk. However, when experimenting with dyes and choosing our colour schemes we used reactive dyes,so when we came to mix our colours for our length we had to experiment a little to obtain the colours we had before...
15g of acid red : 500g of print paste.
12g of acid Navy : 500g of print paste.
Then we were ready to print. we put our first screen down on our fabric and printed, but some of the design smudged leaving blotches. We were told there could be a number of reasons because of this so we checked the screen to make sure it was ok and were careful when we next printed it not to put so much dye down. When we printed it the second time the print came out fine, which even confused the tutor. Perhaps the fabric was a little damp?
From here, we repeated the print until we had finished both layers of the desgn, images displayed below. I think the design looked absolutely amazing, the blue and red worked very well together.
No comments:
Post a Comment