Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Transfer dyes

I finally got off my duff and decided to start using the wonderful transfer dyes that I ordered. I used the article by Margaret Roberts in Fibre & Stitch to get my creative juices going. Her ideas on how to manipulate the paper to get patterns is wonderful! The first two pictures, I did a background and then cut up pieces of my other work and layered it on. I love the technique that Margaret uses in which she crumples the paper and then paints on the tops of the little hills to achieve a marbled effect--you can see the ghostly image on some of them. A couple of the pieces I did not layer because they were so pretty on their own and so, I would just do a second transfer and then layer on it. The green and purple piece I did on Lutradur. The piece with circles toward the end is from during a rubbing with my transfer crayons on an Indian wooden block, but I think I'm going to need to add something else to it, since it looks kind of blah.










5 comments:

Digitalgran said...

Erica, I just love them! Beautiful results. What fabrics did you use for these I wonder.

Purple Missus said...

These have turned out really well Erica. Look forward to seeing what you do decide to turn them into eventually.
I love your list of 'New Products I'm Playing With' - what a great idea :)

Krishna said...

Hi Erica,
Love your stuff, have added you to my blog, so keep up the great work. What will you make with them? I am not much good for suggestion, I don't know what to do with mine.
I have made a silk fusion piece that looks like some of painted pieces.

Anonymous said...

These are really beautiful! I have SharonB's tutorial printed out in my files, but I'm still looking for a dye source in the states. Do you have one?

....Annie

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