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textiles & stamping
Board: Art Corner
Mar 1, 2006 12:30pm
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has anyone ever used stamping tecniques with printing fabric or quilting? i think i am going to try it - i am a textile design student and always looking for something new to play with.

i would love to see others work if anyone has tried!
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Reply to: #17017 by neversaid
Mar 1, 2006 1:42pm
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I have stamped train curtains for my sons' room. A simple, bold image works best, I think.

DB
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Reply to: #17026 by noydb
Mar 1, 2006 4:12pm
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I had a friend back in Baltimore who made all sorts of crazy clothes using rubber stamps and vintage printers' blocks. I'm not sure how he did it. I believe he used textile inks.

I've done loads of stencilling on fabric, and I love the products made by Pro Chemical and Dye.

http://www.prochemical.com/directions/MX_DirectApplication.htm

Here's a sample of some of the oversized work I've done:

http://muralsplus.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi
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Reply to: #17017 by neversaid
Mar 1, 2006 4:31pm
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I like Stampin' Up products. They have a nice selection of quality rubber stamps and inks. They also have bigger stamps that you can use to stamp on walls and such. They have regular ink pads and ink pads that they call Stays-On. I would imagine these would work great on textiles.

http://www.stampinup.com/
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Reply to: #17017 by neversaid
Mar 1, 2006 6:05pm
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I print on my textiles all the time. What is it that you wanted to know? Who's student are you (just out of curiousity)? :-)

Thunderbird
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Reply to: #17040 by thunderbird
Mar 2, 2006 5:08pm
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im a student at umass dartmouth. the textile design department.

i didnt really want to know anything in particular, just seeing what others have done.
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Reply to: #17125 by neversaid
Mar 2, 2006 7:01pm
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UMass? The proc-chemical and dye is sort of local to you!
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Reply to: #17125 by neversaid
Mar 2, 2006 9:53pm
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I carve rubber blocks for textiles often. I stamp with just about any media - acrylic paint, thickened Procion dyes, thickened bleach, any range of block printing and fabric paints. I've even been known to take rubbings off them. The thinner blocks are really cool, because you can selectively print areas of the same block by bending away the part you don't want to print. Are you familiar with Ruth Issett's books? They will give you huge ideas.

Thunderbird
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Reply to: #17129 by lisascenic
Mar 3, 2006 6:24pm
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yep. i visit them often!
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Reply to: #17131 by thunderbird
Mar 3, 2006 6:25pm
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awesome! thanks for the ideas. i haveny heard of ruth issett, but i would look into her.