Last week I talked about a couple of my favorite methods for transferring images from one paper to another. Today I want to look at transferring to fabric instead. There are two methods that I use more than any other, and I want to start by showing you side-by-side what the final results look like:
The first is a t-shirt transfer, and the second is a transparency transfer. It’s easy to see how much more pigmented and opaque the t-shirt transfer turns out to be. Both of these methods will reverse the image, just like the ones we saw last week, so keep that in mind when you are printing out your inkjet picture.
We’ll start with the t-shirt transfer method:
1. Print out your image onto the transfer paper with a bit of extra saturation of color. Prepare the receiving cloth, ironing it flat if needed.
2. Use parchment paper to protect your iron and board. Iron the transfer in place, following the manufacturer’s specific directions for heat and time. Peel off the transfer paper.
3. Again using parchment paper to protect your iron, iron waxed paper over top of the image to remove the plastic-y feel of the transfer. Peel off the waxed paper. I learned this trick from Rice Freeman-Zachery on a radio interview that she did.
Part two shows the Transparency transfers
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The first is a t-shirt transfer, and the second is a transparency transfer. It’s easy to see how much more pigmented and opaque the t-shirt transfer turns out to be. Both of these methods will reverse the image, just like the ones we saw last week, so keep that in mind when you are printing out your inkjet picture.
We’ll start with the t-shirt transfer method:
1. Print out your image onto the transfer paper with a bit of extra saturation of color. Prepare the receiving cloth, ironing it flat if needed.
2. Use parchment paper to protect your iron and board. Iron the transfer in place, following the manufacturer’s specific directions for heat and time. Peel off the transfer paper.
3. Again using parchment paper to protect your iron, iron waxed paper over top of the image to remove the plastic-y feel of the transfer. Peel off the waxed paper. I learned this trick from Rice Freeman-Zachery on a radio interview that she did.
Part two shows the Transparency transfers
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Comments
My suggestion would be to scan your fabric and print it out on paper or on a transparency. Then you can do an inkjet transfer using acrylic medium.
I am needing to embroider something which I am hoping will endure for a long time. Is it possible to know how the transfer medium might affect gold and silk threads in time?
And another question - for a different project - is this transfer medium capable of being use on ANY fabric - for instance could I use it on tapestry canvas, which has holes on it for cross stitch to be worked? Would the fibres of the canvas be "shed" when the needle passes through the holes?(I believe that I would need to prick each of the holes in the canvas before working the cross stitch and some of the transfer medium would presumably be shed but once this was done (if it is in fact possible) it should be plain sailing - yes?
Many thanks,
Christine
On loosely woven fabrics, you'll get some distortion, but if you're wanting to use the transfer sort of as a guide I could see this working...maybe! How's that for an answer? I'd love it if you tried this out and shared your work with us here! I love having other artists do profiles...hint, hint :-)
http://www.mixed-media-artist.com/2007/03/fabric-image-transfers-transparency.html
Thanks