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Category Archives: Dyeing & Printing

About my attempts at dyeing and printing fabrics

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Some dyeing and painting

Posted on Monday, February 21 , 2011 by RuthFebruary 21, 2011

The weather was foul this weekend – cold, grey, miserable. No reason to leave the house and no incentive. So I did some dyeing instead. I needed to dye-paint a piece of cloth for the background for a quilt I … Continue reading →

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Final treatment of my yardage

Posted on Tuesday, October 19 , 2010 by RuthOctober 19, 2010

I think one could say that I have produced my first piece of art cloth. It was a rather unconventional process as the last step was dyeing the background colour. I was really trying for a paler background, but my … Continue reading →

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Printing yardage

Posted on Saturday, October 16 , 2010 by RuthOctober 16, 2010

These are the results of my printing with my two screens made with drawing fluid and screen filler. I added another set of prints using each screen in a paler colour. I started with the pale orange spirals and decided … Continue reading →

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Screen printing with drawing fluid and screen filler

Posted on Sunday, October 10 , 2010 by RuthOctober 10, 2010

This weekend I am having fun with my screen printing. Things are working more or less as they should! I have made myself some home made screens with some plastic thermofax frames and some synthetic fibre organza fabric and am … Continue reading →

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Printing with flour resist

Posted on Tuesday, October 05 , 2010 by RuthOctober 5, 2010

Well my flour paste had longer to dry than intended, thanks to Ryanair cancelling our flight back from Spain on Wednesday due to the general strike in Spain. This is what they had to say in the email they sent … Continue reading →

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Thermofax Screenprinting

Posted on Saturday, September 25 , 2010 by RuthSeptember 25, 2010

Well my new duct tape finally arrived. It turned out it was sent from the UK, so that’s why it took so long to get here. Did I mention that the last lot only survived two sessions of printing before … Continue reading →

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More screen printing

Posted on Tuesday, September 07 , 2010 by RuthSeptember 7, 2010

I also did some printing with a freezer paper stencil. I made the design using the ideas in the article Expanded Square by Jane Dunnewold in Quilting Arts June/July 2007. The article just popped into my head when I was … Continue reading →

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Screen printing with newspaper stencils

Posted on Tuesday, September 07 , 2010 by RuthSeptember 7, 2010

My class on screen printing has been running for 2 weeks now. There was quite a bit of preparation to do so I only started any printing this weekend. The first experiments were with newspaper stencils. These are quick and … Continue reading →

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First pieces stitched together

Posted on Tuesday, November 10 , 2009 by RuthNovember 10, 2009

Having said that I was going to make a start on the quilt top I had to get into the studio at the weekend. It was raining and cold and generally a miserable autumn day so there was not much … Continue reading →

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Time to move on

Posted on Saturday, November 07 , 2009 by RuthNovember 7, 2009

These are the results of the latest round of dyeing. The image here may be a little dark. They really aren’t as dark as I would like. But I feel I am going round in circles now with the overdyeing … Continue reading →

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