Friday, 5 August 2011

Fabric experimentation

I've just been experimenting with the use of fabric dye. Found some stuff that you can paint onto news print and then transfer onto certain fabrics with an iron.
For this first go I worked from a paper cutting from a while back, with an image of the French general strikes riot in Paris, 1968. I drew the background with ink, transferred it, and then cut out and sewed on the rioter. Here's the outcome.

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