cling film adventures

decompressing  and just for fun experimenting before tackling the sewing project.

playing with  Kim Thittichai's Hot Textiles book.what  else can you do with ready available materials, namely cling film, besides beads? Ok i'm cheating a bit, also using moulding mesh from crafty notions , but i already had it.:)

one experiment led to another and it was lots of fun. no earth shattering discoveries, but some interesting surfaces came out.

here's a short tute on creating surfaces with cling film:

materials:

• cling film
• cello foil 
• moulding mesh( can be substituted for light  plastic screening-experiment)
• parchment paper 
• assorted heat resistant threads and yarns
• iron

process:

• lay parchment on ironing board
• lay a piece of cling film
• add threads, yarns 
• cut up pieces of cello foil and add
• cut up moulding mesh and add
• cover with another piece of cling film
• cover with parchment to protect iron sole
• iron on wool setting
•  wait until cool and peel off

SAFETY

wear a respirator mask with vapor cartridges

work in a well ventilated room if working outside is not possible.

i mean all windows opened

 things to consider:

• not all cling film is created equal-experiment

• neither are irons - experiment with your settings 

• different settings give different effects; however the hotter the less film will remain

• if unavailable, moulding mesh can be substituted for plastic screening-experiment 

• try laying the film on a textured surface (covered with parchment)  and then iron

•  texturize your parchment ( crumple, fold, etc- experiment) lay the cling film sandwich on and then iron

• consider using a mix of metallic and heat resistant yarns and threads of different grists, the metallics will melt  and add interest

• play with negative and positive space-experiment

note that the operative word here is experiment, this is just a rough guide, so keep notes.

let me know how it goes . if there's quorum will post another tute covering other ideas.

 have fun!!

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dominating the machine

E commerce is incredibly time consuming.It's not only the photos, the styling, it's also the time spent in the forums, e-lists and the whole nine yards. Although i am talkative,chat forums have never caught my interest,as i perceive them as being sort of depressing. Quoting my BIL they are for people who pretend they don't have a life. Opinion here.
Yesterday i managed to keep some time outside the commerce thing and run some tests.

i really wanted to go beyond the scorching and now you see it now you don't phase with tyvek and the heat gun.i can almost say that the heat gun is my friend.The tests included besides tyvek, angelina bondable fibers and plastic nets, all from Art Van Go.The angelina -tyvek samples got lost in the excitement.

i'll keep on looking and see if i can find them.

Turning a page i'm meeting sensei next week with a proposal for private nihongo clasess. Two of my former classmates will join, so fun times are ahead of us :)

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awol, but not idle

Working hard on my samples for the Fibre-in Form on line workshop. This is puff paint on Zisflor, zapped with the heat gun, painted and gilded.
It's very wet over here and the samples take forever to dry. But that said the techniques are a lot of fun.

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Enter TIF

i have been joyously weaving away and thinking-that's what i do when i weave- of changes but in the way of transformations. What it means, ways to carry out transformation, how those thoughts can be put into practice on textiles. Textiles per se are transformation moguls, from seed to cloth, from, grass to fur to yarn to cloth, from worm to yarn to cloth. Not to mention the vile synthetics, all those CHs and OHs chained together.

As weaver by trade and a purist at soul i fiercely resisted synthetics. But then a heat gun crossed my path and melted away my resistance. i don't think i'll ever weave with synthetics, but as far as transforming them into something else... Well what can i say?

Here's this week's TIF exercise, a heat shaped polyester organza island with plowed fields, rocks, hills and bays.
Quite impossible to fashion with cotton fabric, dont you agree?

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