Screen Printing Play Day...

Virginia invited us over to her sun room

for a screen printing play day:

Virginia Screen Printing

Thickened Screen Printing Paste

Work Table for mixing up

Thickened Dye Paste

Dye

Virginia's piece is coming along nicely

Yellow Thickened Dye Paste

Blue Thickened Dye Paste

Virginia treated her screen with Elmer's Gel Glue

in a circular design to act as a resist during

the screen printing process

This has been screen printed and is covered in

plastic and ready to bach for 24 hours

Elmer's Gel Glue on a silk screen

acted as a resist

Flour Paste Silk Screen

Tree Image scratched into dried flour

Tree Screen Print

Covered in plastic...

I took my screen prints home and let them bach

for 24 hours...

This pieced has been washed & dried.

This was a white piece of fabric that I wrote on with a

tjanting tool and hot soy wax.

Then I screen printed blue thickened dye paste over it.

It was my first effort at soy wax, and I see that I should have

written slower to allow more soy wax to penetrate the fabric.

This is a good candidate for discharge techniques.

This piece has been washed and dried.

It is a commercial batik that I thermofax screen printed on

with orange thickened dye paste.

This is a white piece of fabric that I covered with yarns and

fibers to act as a resist.

Then I screen printed over the top with

blue thickened dye paste.

This is a good candidate for more surface design techniques

This is the blue circle fabric that I showed earlier while it

was on the work table covered in plastic.

It started out as a white fabric that was stamped with hot

soy wax with circles to act as a resist.

Then I screen printed over it with bright blue thickened dye paste.

Again, I can see that I should have allowed more soy wax

to penetrate the fabric to create a better resist.

This is a good candidate for discharge and further surface design

This pink piece has been washed and dried.

I applied soy wax to white fabric as a resist, then screen printed

over it with pink thickened dye paste

I needed a heavier application of soy wax.

This piece is a good candidate for discharge techniques.

This is a commercial batik that I thermofax screen

printed on with black thickened dye paste

The black dye could have been darker...

Next time I will know to add more dye to the thickened paste

to get the deep black color I desire.

My first experience with soy wax and thickened dye

screen printing taught me plenty.

I am anxious to try these techniques again with

the benefit of what I have learned.

I am satisfied with the fabrics I created.

I plan to do additional surface designs to them to enhance

the fabrics and create a layered depth of texture.

CLICK HERE:  to see My Quilts

CLICK HERE to view Sun Printing on Fabric

CLICK HERE to view Thermofax Screen Printing

CLICK HERE to view Textile Painting

May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn