09 May 2013

A first for me

And there aren't many firsts left for me!!! Since I got my little job selling scarves, I have been thinking of new colors (marine/sea inspired) or shibori ideas for the maritime museum. I have NEVER used thickened dye with thermofax screens before so I decided to try some amonites on a white silk scarf. I did this before the circles from the last post. I was afraid the thickened dye would run or wick on the silk - wrong.


I put about 1-2 tablespoons of print paste with soda ash added in a cup with a pinch of MX dye powder on the tip of a plastic knife and mixed. I applied the thickened dye with a credit card on the thermofax.


Clean crisp images



Batched a few hours, washed by hand and dried in the dryer.

Lyric Kinard Thermofaxes

7 comments:

  1. Another wow Beth, lovely work! I tried some potato resist yesterday - got to get the thickened paste onto that sometime soon.....

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  2. They didn't buy it (museum shop) but I will do an overall blue dye on it (another experiment) and see if that will fly...

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  3. Love the scarf! I'm amazed they didn't buy it, 'cause it's beautiful! Do you have a resource for your thermofax screens? I've never seen a design like that available through the people I have found that sell them...

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  4. I buy all my thremofax screens from Lyric Kinard. She also has made every thermofax screen I have sent her (my designs). She is VERY reasonable and sends the thermofaxes priority within a day. If you want her to make multiple screens with your designs, send her an email (directions on her link above) and she will send a PayPal bill with an adjusted postage rate. She is fabulous to work with.

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  5. What a beautiful scarf, my favourite fossil. I love the colours.

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  6. My favorite color combo! What a wonderful design.

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  7. Nice stuff! I just had a flopped session because I used the wrong dye with the wrong fabric and fixer...ugh! But I've ordered the right stuff and plan another print stint asap.

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