In my last blog I mentioned using silk screens in paper lamination. As a refresher, paper lamination is a technique to meld printed images with textiles - usually a transparent polyester, tulle or cheesecloth. Here are the steps in this process: Copy/print your images onto regular photocopy paper, or use newspaper images and text. Cheap paper works. Magazine and glossy book paper do not work. If you are planning on using the side with the image on top of the fabric, you will

Maybe you've heard the term "Paper Lamination" before. Many haven't. It simply refers to incorporating paper with some type of textile. Having said that, there are a multitude of techniques to do this. The common ingredient in these methods is glue of some sort. Throughout the years, the terms applied to combining paper and fabrics/textiles have varied often along the lines of the "glue" being used. Paper fabric, or fabric paper, uses a 50/50 white glue and water mixture. Wh

In June, I was excited to be able to take a workshop with Claire Benn in Calgary. She covered a lot of ground over the four days!! I decided to work further with one of those techniques and that is what this article is about. Claire taught us to make large screens - basically as large as you want, whether 4 feet by 6 feet or any other dimension using a process of paper lamination. This method give you a negative image, leaving the positive portion uncoloured, to be coloured i