Last week in our textiles lessons we looked at heat transfer printing some of our pattern design ideas onto fabrics as experiments for my final collection of dress/furnishing fabrics inspired by the theme of plants.
BEFORE
In order to do this, we first painted our design onto thin layout/transfer paper using transfer ink paints. I found that these paints were quite a thick consistancy to work with, building up the colour as you go. I painted sections of my pattern design ideas from my sketchbook on the theme of plants in a range of colours inc. reds, blues and greens, etc.
AFTER....
In order to finally transfer the painted design onto fabric, the transfer paper design was placed face-down ontop of a thin, silky polester fabric and an iron/heat pressed over the top for a certain amount of time. The result was a beautiful and vibrant pattern design printed onto fabric.
I really enjoyed this technique and feel that the results produced came out really well! I found that some colours tened to come out a lot better than others and therefore more layers of paint were perhaps required in places, however I really love the vibrant and playful designs created that I could them go on to link into my final dress/furnishing fabrics collection.
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