Chapter 3

The edges below were worked in a frame to keep both fabric and film under tension and safer to work..

 

 

The fringes were great to do and the varigated threads worked really well

 

The grid samples were also worked in a frame even tough they are" foot on".

 The piece in the centre is worked using a pale thread and doesn't show up well.

 I have included photos of the feathers as they look lost on the page.

Painting on soluble paper was not a great success.  My first experiment ended in a slimey mass and other attempts are shown here.  Perhaps my Acrylic paints are not thick enough ( I will try a different brand when I can get some). 

 
This sample is a little better.  Both sides of the printed birds was painted with Acrylic Wax but this applie quite liberally and this stopped all the paper around the birds from being removed.  

 The soluble sticky film is much more successful giving so many possibilities for other ideas, as the sample right below which could be workrd on a much larger scale for a lampshade.

 

The grid has obscured the Granite Stitch detail but on the whole I am pleased with this experiment.  Sample worked in a hop.

 I used a narrow strip for the insertion sample but a much wider piece would work equally well

 

 

 

 

 I worked a sample using rows of automatic patterns on soluble film in Module One (Ch 4 page 7) which was quite successful.