We started by making stencils (cut into newsprint) for screen printing the foil glue, and also used brushes etc for making other marks with the glue. I like the "moons"near the bottom, printed with a bit of round sponge -
The criss-cross marks worked better on a sheer fabric coloured yesterday, with less glue on the spatula used to make them -
Foiling is pressed for 15-20 seconds at 160 degrees (more or less). Flocking - for which there is a sort of transfer paper - uses a different glue and spends 30 seconds in the press at 180 degrees. Here are Dawn's samples of both techniques -
The flock paper can be re-used, but won't be as solid as fresh flock paper.
Strangest object of the day - this scrap of fake fur became solid and plasticky with the foil added. Now if it was real wool (fleece or roving) and gold leaf, that would be something else! -
Moving swiftly on, I got to work on some gathered cloth, found recently -
As found |
Foiled - pewter on the fabric, gold on the strings |
Looser foiling, less of it too -
This is a double layer, so something different can be done on the back - I might try printing the circles with the fabric almost stretched out. Just to see what happens. Does it need colour?
I foiled over some thick stitches, on wool, but forgot to take a photo. That was inspired by this detail of Alison Willoughby's "Skirt 41", one of the slides Dawn showed us -
Other work using foiling that Dawn showed (often pix used in her book) was wallpaper by Linda Florence -
Textile hangings by Norma Starszakowna -
Shown at Stroud International Textile Festival 2010 (via) |
The foiling changes the weight of the sheer fabric (via) |
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I'm loving what you're doing with heat transfer!
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