From: Greg Schmitz (gws1@columbia.edu)
Date: 09/25/03-06:22:24 PM Z
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Catherine Rogers wrote:
> Patricia Reed wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience/insight in printing Vandyke on fabric?
>
> Vandyke brown works on all kinds of fabrics. For example I printed a number
> of images on several metres of silk which became the lining of a coat my
> sister made for exhibition. It worked fine. It wont necessarily look exactly
> like a print on paper but you can adjust your imagery/ideas accordingly.
>
> Many years ago students in a class I ran, decided that they were going to
> print on fabric. I suggested they use non-synthetic fabrics like cotton.
> Silly me. Students being students, brought in everything under the sun -
> polyesters, nylons and all sorts of mixed fabrics including previously
> printed fabrics and we got some amazing results on just about everything. It
> was also a lot of fun.
>
> I guess what I'm saying is to experiment - it doesn't take long and you may
> get a nice surprise.
>
> cheers
> Catherine
>
>
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