Whilst Nic has been reviving her love of screen printing, I’ve been trying some new layering techniques on a silk scarf. I have hand dyed some strips of silk chiffon and silk ponge and have nuno felted them onto the ends and middle of a rose printed silk scarf to produce ruffles and layers for extra length. No doubt layering is going to feature in our next collection too! Photos to follow.
I love silk screen printing!
I recently had the oppotunity to do some silk screen printing at a workshop I have been attending. It’s great to have the chance to revisit skills I haven’t used in a while. I was surprised how quickly I slotted back in to the old technique and how it seemed second nature to me. I was really thrilled with my results and although the stencil cutting takes a long time, printing is really quick. I love the instant results it gives. It’s given me renewed enthusiasm to experiment with print and do more; perhaps the next scarf collection could included printed textiles too…………………………….
Also on Etsy
We’ve just set up our shop on Etsy, the online market place for all things arts and crafts. It’s a great site to find something one off, hand made and unique. Perfect for our products. WWW.etsy.com we are coppertopdesignsuk.
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Photo session day two!
We spent another few hours photgraphing the back views of the scarf collection, plus all the corsages, necklaces etc today with the help of Pat.
I then spent another few hours trying to crop and resize the photos- it always sounds easy when you’re shown what to do- but I think I may need another little lesson before I get this one sussed!
Girls Dressing-Up Day
We’ve spent the afternoon having a photo shoot of all our products so far. We re-dressed the mannequin in grey which we both feels gives a better contrast to the products. We must have taken hundreds of shot;arranging and rearranging the scarves to show them off in all the various ways they can be worn. Teeming the scarves up with matching corsages. It’s been great fun seeing the collection in it’s entirety. The new photo’s still need a bit of work, cropping and zooming but we should be uploading the finished results soon. Here’s Emma adjusting one of her scarf’s.
Felt Vs Technology
