Viva Gallery is an artists cooperative that I am proud to be a member of, and we recently featured a group show, where we each took home an 8×8 canvas, to go all arty on. Now for the painters, this was not such a “think outside of the box” kind of challenge but as a weaver and sometime jeweler, it was a little bit a stretch.
Since I had of course waited until the last minute, a tapestry image was not going to happen. I have had a chicken laying an egg, tapestry in the works for about 10 years now. So scratch that.
I have always liked the idea of finding a way to combine fiber with one of my other passions, ie; glass or photography. That led to the slippery slope of learning about image transfer so I could print one of my favorite images onto fabric and then include that in a weaving that looks like birch bark, partly because of a cool Habu yarn called Aresco cotton. So I choose a tree image but also printed a bunch of my other favorites to play with later.
For the transfer I choose to use a method where a gel medium is layered on the fabric and using your image; that has been ink jet printed onto a transparency paper, you burnish it onto the fabric. While this did work. I didn’t like that the image was not as darkly black as my moo cards, that I had printed up for hang tags. Long story short, after many trials, I ended up sewing my moo card image to my weaving. Oh well. The show must go on…However I have not given up on the idea of image transfers being used in my weaving.
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Using an app called Paper to sketch out ideas for my square |
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trying out the printed fabric image and not liking it |
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printed images on fabric on the left and images still on the clear transfer paper to the right |
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Images laid out on the gel before burnishing |
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Some of the finished squares |
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