Summer School

I just had a wonderful time at the Distant Stitch Summer School at Urchfont Manor in Wiltshire. Great to meet Sian and the fellow students at last - a really friendly bunch! Ruth Issett was a fantastic tutor and I learnt so much about rolling and printing!
Here's my piece on location at Urchfont.

Module 2 Chapter 6

Commercial Patterned Fabrics

Shibori - Tie-dye

Stone, rubber bands.
Colourcraft Procion dye on pre-soda-soaked cotton fabric.

Angel Fish, Tortoise, Cormorant






Stones, buttons, rubber bands.
Colourcraft pre-soda-soaked cotton fabric

Angel Fish, Tortoise, Nile Monitor Lizard

Shibori - folded

Pre-soda-soaked fabric - folded towards centre 3 times
Colourcraft Procion dye

Angel fish







Concertina folded - twisted and held with large paper clips and bulldog clips.
Colourcraft Procion dye on pre-soda-soaked fabric

Cormorant

Shibori - Tie-dye

Spider's Web - wound with string
Colourcraft Procion on pre-soda-soaked fabric

Sea Stars

Shibori - Tritik - soda-soaked fabric, straight machine stitched, thickened Procion dye

Dye applied to dry fabric - left 4 hours

Giraffe, Zebra










Dye applied to wet fabric - left 4 hours

Giraffe, Jaguar












Stitched in wavy lines - left overnight

Giraffe, Zebra

Shibori - Tritik - soda-soaked fabric, hand sewn - thickened Procion Dye

Waxed cotton thread sewn in a pattern.
Left overnight

Giraffe







Sewn in concentric rings with waxed viscose thread.
Left overnight

Sea Stars













Sewn in 7 spirals with waxed viscose thread.
Left overnight

Sea Stars

Shibori - Tritik - soda-soaked fabric, zig zag machine stitched, thickened Procion dye

Dye applied to wet fabric.
Left 4 hours

Giraffe











Dye applied to dry fabric.
Left 4 hours

Giraffe

Shibori - Arashi

Fabric wrapped around builder's tube

Cormorant

Printing with thickened Procion dye

Printed with reels and bamboo

Sea Stars, Angel Fish











Printed from glue on foam board

Angel Fish















Printed from string on foam board

Zebra

Screen Printing - thickened Procion Dye

Angel Fish













Zebra















Giraffe

Transfer Dye with "Transfix" - thickener added

Colourcraft dye - previous ones were Art Van Go - seems a bit darker

Giraffe

Transfer Dye with "Transfix" - thickener added

Giraffe, Sea Stars












Angel Fish

Transfer Dye with "Transfix" - no thickener added

Angel Fish












Zebra

Transfer Crayon with "Transfix" on Cotton

Colourcraft transfer crayon
Rubbing from purse (crocodile)

Nile Crocodile

Inkjet Transfer Paper

Jet FX (Art Van Go)

Shoe rubbing

Giraffe, Nile Monitor Lizard

Discharge Paste

Procion dyed fabric with Colourcraft discharge paste and catalyst

Sea Stars, Angel Fish, Nile Monitor Lizard

Markal rubbings

Titanium White on black cotton

Shoe rubbing

Sea Stars, Angel Fish








Ivory Black on white cotton

Shoe rubbing

Giraffe

Markal rubbings

Titanium White on black cotton

Shoe rubbing

Giraffe

Sun Printing

Using Pebeo Setacolor Transparent

Giraffe

Monoprinting with plastic - acrylic paint and fabric medium

Marks made with modelling spatula

Cormorant









Marks made with baster

Angel Fish, Tortoise

Monoprinting with plastic - acrylic paint and fabric medium

Marks made with bubble wrap

Sea Stars, Nile Monitor Lizard in both

Monoprinting with bubble wrap - acrylic paint and fabric medium

Monoprinting with large and small bubble wrap

Sea stars, Nile Monitor Lizard for both

Monoprinting with glass - acrylic paint and fabric medium

Marks made with baster

Angel Fish, tortoise








Marks made with modelling spatula

Cormorant, scales

Monoprinting with glass - acrylic paint and fabric medium

Marks made with edge of card

Giraffe

Working notes Module 2 Chapter 6 pages 1-5