Dye class: repetition prints
Apr. 10th, 2013 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseMy dye class has presented another project, and the topic this time around is print repeat techniques--creating multiple iterations of an image on fabric or on garments. We talk about all the different ways in which this can happen, from stenciling to block printing to screen printing to heat transfers to digital textile design. We discuss the pros and cons of all these methods, and what types of supplies and media you need to deploy them. Then the students choose two methods and create projects with them.
Today i've got a block print and several screen print examples to share.
Linoleum block print for interlocking border design, by second-year Candy McClernan
Candy carved the block in the foreground and used it to stamp borders onto pillowcases.
First-year Corinne Hodges created a series of Celtic knot screens for wedding favors.
She plans to shibori the printed silk scarves at right as bridesmaid gifts.
First-year Colleen Dobson burned a screen of the golden ratio and printed a series of t-shirts with it.
Second-year Leah Pelz created these screenprints from an Erte illustration (top row), an old millinery textbook (middle row), and an Aubrey Beardsley illustration (bottom row).
Because Candy has recently done a one-color screenprint for Cabaret, she needed to take it one step further for the purposes of the class project. She decided to try a three-color image (thus three screens). These prints feature the logo of the Millennium Pelican, a vacation home in Kure Beach that Candy and her husband rent to summer holidaygoers.
Today i've got a block print and several screen print examples to share.
Linoleum block print for interlocking border design, by second-year Candy McClernan
Candy carved the block in the foreground and used it to stamp borders onto pillowcases.
First-year Corinne Hodges created a series of Celtic knot screens for wedding favors.
She plans to shibori the printed silk scarves at right as bridesmaid gifts.
First-year Colleen Dobson burned a screen of the golden ratio and printed a series of t-shirts with it.
Second-year Leah Pelz created these screenprints from an Erte illustration (top row), an old millinery textbook (middle row), and an Aubrey Beardsley illustration (bottom row).
Because Candy has recently done a one-color screenprint for Cabaret, she needed to take it one step further for the purposes of the class project. She decided to try a three-color image (thus three screens). These prints feature the logo of the Millennium Pelican, a vacation home in Kure Beach that Candy and her husband rent to summer holidaygoers.
