Monday, 26 August 2013

Viscose/Handpainted warp

One of the last fabrics for the book will be made from a hand painted viscose warp and gold polyester weft. Below shows the process, it will be printed using a geometric twill type screen.
 
Winding the warp
 
Detangling and winding onto the loom
 


Tying On
Unrolling the warp onto the print table
Painting 
 
Printing 

 


 
 The aim was to print the screen when the warp was still wet so the pattern blurred.
 

Weaving

Gold Polyester thread in the shuttle

 
 The end of the warp

Steaming