Colonial Fabric
Jul 17th, 2006 | By Gidget | Category: Printing, ProjectsI’ve been working on printing a colonial themed yardage. This piece is about 8 yards in length. The base fabric is what Walmart calls weaver’s cloth. It’s 100% cotton kind of a homespun white fabric (I think traditional weaver’s cloth is 50/50 for needlepunch work).
I cut stencils of colonial people based on some pewter colonial workers that my mom had when I was growing up. The other images, the cornucopia of roses, floral border, wagon, eagle, liberty bell, etc. are from a book of stencils I stashed 30 years ‘in case I might want to use them’. It’s so old, the glue binding had crumbled - so I am happy to have found a use for them now.
The ink paste was Pro Chem’s Indigo MX Fibre Reactive Dye. It’s the same as before, but this time I used 4 tbsp of pigment for a darker color. I think these types of images would be really nice on a smaller scale on some Irish Linen, so that will be my next task.
Here’s the pics (btw, the fabric is white, but the gray of my tables is coming through because the fabric was damp with starch):
Very nice! Are you going to make a tablecloth with it, or use it in some other way?
Thank You! I was thinking of using it for drapes in our dining room, but I haven’t decided yet. It still needs ’something’ but I’m not sure what yet.
The pictures are now in the gallery.