{"id":2219,"date":"2009-08-24T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T22:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2009-08-24T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T23:11:08","slug":"virtual-studio-at-festival-of-quilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Studio at Festival of Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year the Festival of Quilts show held in Birmingham, UK features a “virtual studio” – a large wet studio where various types of complex cloth are created.\u00a0 This year Claire Benn, Leslie Morgan, Linda Maynard, Claudia Helmer, and Elaine Griffiths worked using four main processes.\u00a0 The only thing better would have been the addition of Jane Dunnewold.\u00a0 Her presence was there, in spirit,\u00a0 as co-author of some of the books being sold.<\/p>\n

Demonstrations included breakdown printing, which is a way of using a silkscreen (or silkscreens)\u00a0 and Procion MX dyes to create patterned cloth.\u00a0 Paper lamination, which uses photographic imagery and\/or newsprint with matte medium to create design on sheer polyester fabric.\u00a0 Screen printing and tray & bucket dyeing.<\/p>\n

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The above images show a long piece of sheer polyester over several photocopied black\/white images — a “paper lamination” in process.\u00a0 We were told that the cheaper the paper used to copy onto, the better.\u00a0 The screens have a design on it – this can be a temporary design or a permanent screen, whatever your preference.\u00a0 Matte medium (she was using Liquitex) is then squeegeed through the screen.\u00a0 After the entire cloth is thoroughly dried, the paper is washed out.\u00a0 More information about this process is in the book, “Paper & Metal Leaf Lamination,” which you can get in the US through Jane Dunnewold<\/a> or in the UK through Committed to Cloth.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Various improvisational screens for printing.<\/p>\n

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I love looking at art journals, especially when they are crammed with clippings, samples, notes, ideas, and the like. The above journal\u00a0 filled to the brim with various discharging samples and notes.<\/p>\n

The point of the Virtual Studio is to expose people to different methods of creating patterened cloth.\u00a0 It’s part of the Festival of Quilts show, meaning once you pay admission to the show, you can hang out at the wet studio for as long as you want.\u00a0 It’s fun watching the artists work, listening to the questions and to the answers.\u00a0 And photos are allowed.\u00a0 And of course there are also books and a DVD or two available to purchase.\u00a0 I bought the latest book from Committed to Cloth, “Screen Printing: Layering Textiles with Colour, Texture & Imagery.” It’s pricey, but good.\u00a0 If creating art cloth is up your alley, be sure to check out what Jane Dunnewold <\/a>offers.
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Each year the Festival of Quilts show held in Birmingham, UK features a “virtual studio” – a large wet studio where various types of complex cloth are created.\u00a0 This year Claire Benn, Leslie Morgan, Linda Maynard, Claudia Helmer, and Elaine Griffiths worked using four main processes.\u00a0 The only thing better would have been the addition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dyeingpainting","category-festival-of-quilts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}