3rd day - getting into the swing of things

 

Today,we had a print and dye induction where we were taught how we technically repeat a print pattern. It was definetley a lot to take in! I wrote down everything i possibly could in my pdp book where it explains how you measure up your screen in comparison to the table and fabric, what screws you need like t-bars and screws from screen to table. We also were taught how to wash our screens properly and how we apply the ink well without smudges, or joining marks. It's all very complicated but i have every faith that once were in there we can get on and it'll make more sense; i think it's the typical thing until you do, you won't fully understand! It does seem to make sense in a weird non-understanding way as it will make the repeating printing process much easier and quicker to actually try and do.

We also finished our kodatraces so they are ready to be exposed ready to be printed a week on tuesday! With that knowledge and the induction this morning we thought it would be ideal to start testing dyes out on our fabric as we have to have our fabric prepared ready to print straight onto.

What i like about it, is that you can see two different tones so you can get a feel and an idea if what it would look like before its even been printed.

Us hard at work working onto the top layer of kodatrace. We had to be really steady handed as we need to align both kodatraces together and and the design underneath as we wanted areas that weren't just block orange and detailed blue we wanted to interact with the colours and have them intertwining between the design and fabric. In order to do this we had to remove one of the kodatraces at one time to be able to pick up details we wouldn't have otherwise seen.

Some of our dye samples.

Some more of our dye samples. (will upload more photos when i take them!)

I had forgotten until this afternoon how long the dyeing process takes! We looked into warm colours with lighter and darker tones, i don't think were all convinved still on our final colour palette but we are going to use some of the colours we tryed out today so we know what dyes they were and how we got that outcome by recording them into our pdp journals.