Screenprinted Map Fabric for Cabaret

In our ongoing look at my co-crafts artisan Candy McClernan's surface design work for Cabaret, today we depart from the realm of digitally printed Deutschmarks and dirigibles to focus on screenprinting.

See, we needed for this project to be able to put a pattern on milliskin, which is super stretchy and not a fabric available from a place like Spoonflower. Spoonflower does a cotton jersey, but that wasn't going to work for the design in question (pictured below). Granted, we did look into the possibility of consulting with [TC]2 on an engineered print project, and also at places that do digitally printed stretch products like Agon Swimwear. Ultimately though, when all the factors of cost vs. time vs. labor were taken into consideration, we decided that doing it the old-fashioned way was going to be the best choice.

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Now, there's a lot more that has to happen before these screenprints become costumes, but that's where we're at!