Monday 7 July 2014

Extraordinary Prints from Ordinary Objects - N

N is for Netting

On my printing passage through the Alphabet I have got to the
letter N - for Netting!

There are so many different kinds of netting that you can repurpose:
onion bags, the protective netting you get on your duty free bottles, 
no-slip carpet underlay, the plastic netting on top of mandarin orange 
boxes - even lace (plastic or fabric) - the list goes on and on!
Here are a few examples of what you can do:

The fabric was painted using Colour Vie pigments www.colourvie.com
then stencilled with metallic Colour Vie pigment, using the plastic
netting from the top of a mandarin orange box.

Painted with Colour Vie pigments. Carpet underlay was placed
underneath the painted fabric. The excess pigment was
scraped off while still wet.
I put plastic netting under the fabric and scraped off the excess,
so that the netting appeared like a rubbing . After the pigment had
dried, I placed a different plastic netting on top of the fabric,
and painted through that netting using a brush.
Colour Vie pigments can be thinned! Just add a pinch of salt to your
Base/pigment/Resfix mixture and the thickener breaks down to
become liquid. Now you can use the pigment for spraying
(or dyeing). Here I sprayed through a plastic mesh.
A lace curtain was placed under the cotton fabric,
which was painted and then scraped while wet.





















2 comments:

  1. Tack för besöket på min blogg. Så vackra färger du har. Ska titta ordentligt snart.
    Vad spännande med dina tyger.
    Varma hölsningar Brittmari

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    1. Tack, Brittmari! Fargerna ar mina egna Colour Vie textile pigments. Mer info och bilder pa www.colourvie.com.
      Manga halsningar, Gunnel

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