Surface Design Textile Weekend

"I enjoyed the atmosphere, the teacher Alex was very patient, enthusiastic and very knowledgeable and her teaching skills helped me to understand things quickly" 

For textiles enthusiasts everywhere!

A weekend to explore and combine colour with surface manipulation to create a variety of fun and textural fabric samples. 

A real one stop shop for those textile artists wishing to create colourful, layered work full of excitement and texture. Combining traditional screenprint onto fabric you will learn how to add lots of different surface techniques that will supply you with years of exciting ways to create your images. 

Fine for both intermediate or beginners.

Course Information

• Experiment with disperse dyes by painting backgrounds / imagery and transfer (by heatpress) onto fabric. Also, collage with pre painted disperse papers to create fabrics with a monoprint feel.
• Expose a simple two layer hand drawn design onto a pre coated screen.
• Using a combination of screen and hand cut stencils, apply adhesives for flocking and foiling 
• Learn how to layer disperse dyes and heatpress techniques.

Course Structure

Saturday:

• Introduction to the course.
• Using disperse dyes create a variety of fabrics using stencils, pre-painted dye papers, wet dyes and found materials.
• Heatpress these designs onto fabric to create 'grounds' to be embellished upon. 
• Experiment with colour.
• Create a 2 layer hand drawn design from your own imagery, ready to be exposed onto the screen for the next day.
• Draw out the design onto drafting film.
• Coat screens in preparation for the next day.

Sunday:

• Expose design onto screen.
• Demo showing the surface embellishment techniques (flock, foil and puff) also include new techniques such as metallic binder and opaque binders. 
• Experiment using all these embellishment techniques on top of the fabrics made previously.
• Opportunity to use the variety of techniques learned during the course to layer and print your design on top of samples and textile fabrics created in Day One.