Butterflies Digital Print

Traditional

Silk satin and silk chiffon digitally printed with design created from original photography on Adobe Photoshop.

Material

Fiber

Craft

Textiles

General Technique

Surface modifying

Specific Technique

Digital textile design and print applied to traditional millinery etc.

Properties & Qualities

Application

Accessory Clothing

Colour

Orange Black Pink Red

Sample Information

Date of creation

2013-2018

Dimensions

900 x 900 mm repeat

Culture & Context

Experimenting with digital textile printing in the creation of a decorative fabric. It is said to use much smaller quantities of water than traditional screen printing, although electricity is required in multiple steps of the process. The design was created from original photography, using motifs such as butterflies which can be seen in woven or embroidered heritage clothing textiles.

I was attempting to create texture and depth through the imagery. The fabric was used to create accessories. The fabric was also steamed and blocked using the traditional millinery method to shape it as an outer layer for headpieces also made by hand on wooden blocks.

Process & Production

Fabric created from photography, digitally manipulated into a design. Different types of silk have been digitally printed with the design and then used to create scarves and items of clothing.

The printed silk was also steamed and shaped on a wooden millinery block to become a 3 dimensional shape, then applied to blocked sinamay to create headpieces.

Credits

Craft Maker

Leonora Ferguson

Library Contributor

National College of Art & Design Ireland

Photographer

Leonora Ferguson

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