making lemonade

fun, but not what your mother would call a good print oi? thickened strong ferrous on myrobalan mordanted cotton. the stencilling came out blurry in some parts mostly due to not having spray adhesive to fix it to the cloth.also the ferrous needed more guar gum.the thickened lac wasn't too great either, so let's go for broke.

thickened lac was added  between  spaces, the center was printed with an indian carved block.

no major work of art, but a useful exercise ,learning the processes.

 it is  cool  to see the ferrous becoming visible on contact with the tannin,much like photo image developing.remeber?

have undestood a couple of things about indian block print textiles.

rushed frantically to wash off the ferrous from the tool when i finished. 

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the iron week

last week was all about ferrous  acetate; making it, creating different strengths and thicknesses and working with it with various tools. all worked on tannin mordanted cotton and linen.

 a felt stamp with thickened weak iron was used in the above. it needed more guar gum than what the recipe suggested. however the blurry edges look nice, somewhat ikat like.

using the water pen  filled with an unthickened strong ferrous acetate was much more enjoyable than anticipated.

tremendously liberating and going with the flow, literally and figuratively. less stressful than trying to get a perfect print.

both samples were  gallnut lightweight cotton.

i got paranoid bcse the instructors kept reminding how easily all your tools and working space get contaminated w.iron and how careful and clean one has to be. i who tend to fall on the almost sloppy 

team was constantly washing brushes, stamps and changing the paper covering the printing table.it has paid off as no major disaster has happened.

btw where did october go?     ¯\ ( ツ ) /¯

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development

 getting adventurous regardless the imperfections. freehand thickened  mordant print paste with lac on linen. 

further development, centers painted with thickened pomegranate and iron paste. looking like it's going in a nice direction.

and now the background which is pomegranate and copper. was hoping for a greener, but it doesn't look bad. now it needs to be steamed to fix, but waiting for some other pieces to do a huge steaming batch.

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