I’ve been using some textured fabrics and doilies on breakdown screens. It’s an extension of the work I’ve been doing with absorbent materials and what I taught in my class at Pratt a week or so ago. It’s a technique that continues to excite me and I feel like it’s a way into the theme of my next body of work.
Here are some images of the process and resulting fabrics.
Textured fabric is wrinkled up and allowed to dry on a silk screen coated with thickened dye.
The silk screen is ready to print after the fabric is removed.
After printing and washing: fabric printed with the breakdown screen, the textured fabric used to create the patterning, and fabric that was printed directly with the textured fabric.
I want to apply a design to a pillowcase, but I don’t know how to without creating a surface that is hard, like in screen printing. How can print or apply my design to this fabric without this result? My design has only two colors, no halftones. Thanks!
If you use thickened dye instead of paint it will not change the “hand” of the fabric of your pillowcase. Search on line for a print paste recipe using sodium alginate. Good luck!