Fabric printing

[diabolical_Tanya]

Batik

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What is Batik?
Batik is a centuries old method of dyeing cloth. The wax in the dyeing process prevents the dyes from penetrating the fabric, ensuring adjacent dyes do not bleed into each other and also creates the 'white lines' characteristic of the batik process.
What is the batik process used by Beyond Batik Canada?
FOR OUR CLOTHING: The fabric we use is either 100% cotton or 100% first quality rayon.
First, the design is drawn on the fabric with pencil and then the fabric is secured onto a frame.
Hot, melted wax is then poured into a special pen, called a canting. Using the canting, the liquid wax is drawn over the pencil lines.
After the wax has hardened, the colors (dyes) are painted on to the fabric by hand. When this stage has been finished, the fabric is placed in the sun to set the dyes, to bring out the colors and to dry. Next, the fabric is brought back into the workplace and the fine details are hand-painted on.
Once again the cloth is placed in the sun.
The next step is to place the fabric in boiling water, thus melting the wax and removing it from the fabric. This stage also pre-shrinks the fabric. The fabric is then dried in the sun again.
It is only after all these steps are completed that the fabric is ready for cutting and sewing.
You can expect slight design/color variations from garment to garment due to the hand-painting process.
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[diabolical_Tanya]

Re: Fabric printing




a mussie only schools a country dem did teach dis a yaad

[Gen]

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ok thats wha mi did have in mind as batik, not that.


i guess it would be screen printing, but not the cheap looking type meaning I wouldn't want it to fade after couple washes.

[diabolical_Tanya]

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silk screen printing


2. Preparing Your Artwork

What you need:

~ Original artwork with a high contrast
~ Transparency film

Screen printing is a very “flat” medium, so images that are starkly contrasted work best. When preparing your artwork to be burned to the screen (to create the stencil), work in black and white only — grey tones and the subtleties of photographic images will not produce a workable stencil. If you start with a photo, as in the example below, reduce the information to a line drawing, or apply a filter or halftone screen in Photoshop which will reduce the image to a series of dots.


rest of the diy instructions here http://nomediakings.org/doityourself...nd_shirts.html

[diabolical_Tanya]

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http://www.instructables.com/id/D.I.Y.-Screen-Printing/

[Ja. Jewel]

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I've done both batik &amp; screen printing and batik is much more time consuming and difficult, but the finished product is worth it!....you can either do a &quot;one of a kind&quot; piece with brush or a tool called a chantung (spelling is prob. wrong), or you can mass produce with a stamping block dipped in the wax.

Printing, on the other hand, just requires a &quot;screen&quot; that you can make yourself or have someone make for you, and then it's just a matter of using a squeegie to spread the very thick ink across the screen onto your fabric. It is easy to &quot;mass produce&quot; items with this method.

Years ago I designed a line of travel &amp; sport bags with a silkscreen design on the pocket that I manufactured myself.

[Ja. Jewel]

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You can also use an irish potato, cut in half, carve a simple design into it, brush on acrylic paint and print on fabric for smaller projects....this is a good project for kids to do.

[evanovitch]

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Tanya wen u was at school, u neva ha Ms Goudden or some such as u craft teacher ? she taught us how to do batik an screen print an leather work, mek basket wid di canes etc...

[diabolical_Tanya]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Tanya wen u was at school, u neva ha Ms Goudden or some such as u craft teacher ? she taught us how to do batik an screen print an leather work, mek basket wid di canes etc...


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I was only there for my final 2 years soh mi neva do crafts at andrews but at Ferncourt dem did teach di batik an screen printing in Art/craft class.

[Gen]

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thanks tanya, I did screen printing for Art in JA in HS. will check out the links


potato a fi play play sitten, mi nah look fi dat kinda qulity.