Showing posts with label TEXTILE PRINT DESIGN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TEXTILE PRINT DESIGN. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 October 2012

TSUMORI CHISATO SS13

// Mad for Prints //


Tsumori Chisato is a Japanese designer with special taste for colourful prints and fabric embellishments, her style is elegant and funny at the same time . 
For SS13 collection she was  inspired by western landscapes, cow skulls, Sioux tipis, flowers and stars. Colourful watercolour prints gave to the collection a fresh and fun look ♦  

Pictures via fashionising.com

//TSUMORI CHISATO ON VIMEO //


Tsumori Chisato Collection - SS 2013 from Tsumori Chisato on Vimeo.

Thursday, 27 September 2012

Vlisco - Real Dutch Wax fabric

//Vlisco//

Last week I've been in Paris for PremièreVision one of the best  Fashion Shows in Europe . I've been looking for inspiration in Paris and I found this amazing little book about Vlisco one of the greatest designers and manufacturers of Wax Hollandais´.



   







At the end of the 19 century Vlisco enter the African Market with his ´´Real Dutch Wax fabric`` developed by the company in a semi -manufactured product. The story says that this African fabric after all manufactured and design in Holland has it's origin in Java Batik, brought by the Dutchman from their colonies in Indonesia and also from African soldiers that wore fighting in the colonies under dutch command. Companies such as Vlisco saw this great opportunity to develop the Batik fabric in a more industrialised and  fast production technique and for that they invented new printing machines.

Sunday, 22 April 2012

Print and Textile Design at Chelsea School of Art

Last week I've been in London for a Short-course of Textile Design and Print Workshop in Chelsea College of Art & Design.
In the workshop we interpreted our ideas and translated our designs into prints. We experimented with a range of techniques and produced a sophisticated textile design, screen-printed and  introduced to a range of methods, which included colour discharge, Foil print, Flock Print  and different heat transfer techniques.


Na semana passada estive em Londres num Short-course de Design Têxtil e Estampado no Chelsea College of Art & Design.
No curso aprendemos a interpretar as nossas idéias e a traduzir-los em estampados. Experimentamos  diferentes técnicas e produzimos vários estampado ssofisticados através da Serigrafia de diferentes métodos, que incluíam Discharge print, Foil print, Flock print  e diferentes técnicas de transfer de calor.


 The Studio, were all ideas are developed.
 O estúdio , onde se desenvolvem os conceitos para os estampados.


 Fabric samples with different printing techniques.
 Mostras de tecidos com as diferentes técnicas de estampagem.

 The printing room.
A sala de estampagem.

 A screen is made of a piece of porous finely woven fabric called mesh stretched over a frame of aluminium or wood. Areas of the screen are blocked off with a non-permeable material to form a stencil, which is a negative of the image to be printed; that is, the open spaces are where the ink will appear.

Uma tela de Serigrafia é feita de uma peça de tecido poroso finamente tecido chamado rede e esticado sobre uma moldura de alumínio ou de madeira. Algumas areas da tela são bloqueadas com um material não-permeável para formar um stencil, que é um negativo da imagem a ser impressa, ou seja, a tinta irá aparecer nos espaços abertos.





Printing table ♦ Mesa de estampagem 

Preparing the cloth for the printing ♦ Preparaçáo do tecido para a estampagem


The 'exposure unit' burns away the unnecessary photo-emulsion leaving behind a clean area in the mesh with the identical shape as the desired image.
A unidade de exposição queima a emulsäo photosensível deixando uma area limpa na rede com a forma da imagem desejada.



The Illustrations ♦  As ilustraçöes




My first Silkscreen ♦ A minha primeira serigrafia




Preparing the next print with transparent ink ♦ Preperaçäo do próximo estampado com uma base de tinta transparente.

Discharge Ink -used to print lighter colours onto dark background fabrics, they work by removing the dye in the garment . It works as a bleach and reacts to heat.
Discharge Ink - É uma tinta usada para imprimir cores mais claras em tecidos de base escura funciona através da remoção do corante no tecido. O resultado é similar ao da Lixívia e reage ao calor.