Definitely nothing to do with paper in plastic pockets being heated in a machine, laminating paper onto fabric is basically glueing it on to fabric in order to get an image. I've had this book for years but somehow it's one of those things that never really made sense to me - until my recent workshop with Alysn Midgelow-Marsden.
We didn't use this particular technique of attaching paper, we stitched it on to fabric then washed it away, leaving texture. I guess it gave me the confidence to give this a try.
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| Workshop sample |
Although I've been manipulating some of my photos from my recent trip in Photoshop to get some crazy colours, I found an image from King Island I had previously been working on - a smashed sea urchin shell. I printed it out on my home computer - I'm guessing that's an inkjet printer? Apparently using rubbishy photocopy paper is the way to go, so I had that covered.
Following the instructions closely, I laid the paper print side up on my printing area, then pinned a fine polyester organza over it.
Next I placed a screen over it, and squeegeed through acrylic paint medium so it wet through the organza and the paper. After drying flat for 10 minutes, I hung it up to dry in the sun, then heat set it with an iron.
After that it was a soak in a lukewarm bath for 10 minutes, then I was able to start rubbing and scraping away the back half of the paper - it almost splits into two - leaving the front half with the image attached to the fabric. When it was dry again I ironed it to get rid of the worst of the wrinkles.
Although the vivid colour has been lost, I'm calling this a successful process sample. I guess you could call it a bit of a dodgy brothers digital print to fabric technique! I am wondering how a print-out done at Officeworks will fare in comparison - I might try that next. This is a way of creating a background to begin stitching into - the beginnings of 'complex cloth'.
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