Silk Screen

I've been creating my own patterns on fabric by silk screening them myself. I use water based paints and then heat set the inks with an iron or a hair dryer. The fabrics I have been using are vintage scarfs and scraps from a design studio I used to intern with. This animal pattern I printed on an old scarf I got from the Saturday and Sunday flea market on Avenue A and 11th street. The scarves are only a dollar from an onld man next to a Caribean food cart!

I buy my water based printing ink, Sprectrachem, at New York Central on 11th St. and 3rd Ave. http://www.nycentralart.com/
or
Blick Textile Screen Printing Ink, at Dick Blick on Bond St. between Broadway and Lafayette.
http://www.dickblick.com/

Urban Dyeing

This is a blog of the natural dyeing class from Parsons. They post some of their dyeing techniques using natural materials such as flowers, onion, and cranberries. They have some really interesting stuff! I took this picture from their blog of them dyeing with Marigolds.

http://urbandyeing.blogspot.com/

Mitumba

This is an interesting movie about the lifecycle of some donated clothing. The movie follows a t-shirt that takes an interesting journey and winds up in Africa.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkdfzC7pKqE&feature=player_embedded