----- Original Message ----- From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@xxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 9:12 AM
Subject: printing onto fabric
I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend, Emily. I send my heartfelt condolences.
How about quilting the flags, or just sewing the colors and shapes on fabric?
To answer your question about putting fabric through a printer - I've tried this with cloth-like handmade papers and they always get hung up.
Take Care,
Marilyn
My best friend died three days ago and I'm making Tibetan Prayer Flags for solace.
I went out to Staples and bought a package of those iron-on inkjet transfer sheets. They're pretty lame - they dull the color and stiffen the cloth, since one prints to a sheet of think tacky plastic on a carrier of paper and then use heat to make the plastic adhere to the cloth.
Has anyone tried to put a piece of fabric through a consumer type Epson inkjet printer? If you can get it to start, does the ink go right through and mess up everything? Does the ink actually stain the cloth or sit on the surface? Does the ink wash out?
Any alternative ideas for how to get a picture onto fabric without learning how to do serigraphy or getting worked up about batiking?
This is solace, not a new career! -- Emily L. Ferguson mailto:elf@xxxxxxxx 508-563-6822 New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf/
