TEXTILES WORKSHOP 1

BATIK

In the first session of the 4 week period in which I am doing textiles, we had to create patterns with wax on paper and fabric. The purpose of this was so that when we covered the material/paper with ink the wax would not absorb the wax leaving a pattern out despite being covered in colour. We could repeat this on the same sheet to give different coloured backgrounds and different sections to the wax. Once the sheet was completed you would use news print to go over the ink to take away excess, then we would use the news print to iron the fabric/paper to smoothen the wax into the sheet.

FABRIC PAINTING

in the second section to the first session we then got pieces of material and painted with a special paint designed to stain into material and with this we created our own pattern. We also used a type of 3D outliner, which looked a lot like henna, to create an added effect to our work.