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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Disperse Dye/Transfer Paints

Hi all,

For our November technique, we're going to be working with transfer paints (aka disperse dyes). 

Materials required:

good quality paper
disperse dye (powder form) and/or transfer paints (liquid form)
brushes and sponges for application
fabric that is at least 60% polyester
a variety of resists (whatever floats your boat)

This is a method in which you paint paper with either disperse power dyes, or liquid transfer paint, and then iron your design onto fabric.  A variety of techniques will produce varying results - and we'll go through some of them.

Here are some examples:


"Loli Girl" at the Quilting Arts website made these rocks by using the disperse dye method on interfacing


Gurli Gregersen made this whole cloth quilt using a transfer print, which she then embellished with paint sticks and other media.


Marie-Therese Wisniowski used the technique with resists to produce this lovely example.
I'll give you a couple of days to gather supplies and we'll talk soon!

3 comments:

  1. OK -- I've always wanted to play around with transfer paints -- where do you get them? And polyester? Not cotton?

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  2. I've used Transfer paints before - with mixed results. But yes you need a high poly content (or of course you can use evolon etc.)

    Angie Hughes does nice stuff with this technique.
    http://angiestextilenotes.blogspot.com/2011/10/transfer-printing.html

    Have fun!

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  3. Very nice! Like the detailed description of your process.

    buy evolon bulk roll

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