My final project for my Dye & Print class this semester is to take one of my paper designs & apply it to fabric. We’ve been assigned six colour samples & one final piece, but I can’t seem to stop printing …

It’s not exact, but I’m really happy with what I’ve printed so far. For the dots, I stamped acrylic paint onto a sheet of mylar to expose my screen with, to get, well, a “stamped” effect! I used a technique called polychromatic printing for the coloured backgrounds, where I painted a silkscreen with dye water. After it dried, I pulled cellulose reduction paste across the screen to reactivate the dyes & transfer them to the fabric, as seen in another sample below:

As the final part of our project, we were asked to use our samples & create something out of them. I sewed up some lined canvas pouches or accessory bags! They’re really fun to make, & I hope I can add a nice line of them to the shop very soon.