Inkjet Printing on Fabric: Direct Techniques

by Wendy Cotterill

Overview

Inkjet printing on fabric is a highly popular technique, due not least to the accessibility of the basic materials: desktop PCs and printers. There is strong interest from both textile artists and creative quilters, but the technical equipment can be an obstacle for many practitioners who have little or no IT skills. Inkjet Printing on Fabric will address these issues, and will guide textile practitioners to become confident textile printers, teaching them how to use their IT equipment as a printing tool as well as a design tool.

Much of the work featured in this book requires no in-depth specialist skills and highlights taking an experimental approach to using desktop technology, including step-by-step digital imaging techniques, and a demonstration of the use of specialist printing papers and mediums.

Embracing technology in textile practice gives endless possibilities for developing new working methods and adapting traditional techniques. Inkjet Printing on Fabric brings these possibilities within the grasp of those with little or no specialist print studio facilities, and means that techniques that were once the domain of professional artists are now accessible to everyone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408191910
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/20/2014
Series:	Textiles Handbooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	108 MB
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About the Author

Wendy Cotterill runs regular workshops for quilters and textile artists on how to use creative computer software. She has a BA in Fine Art, and is a qualified teacher. Wendy has twenty years' experience of teaching fashion, textiles and computing to adults, runs an online shop and blog, and is also the author of Spunbonded Textile and Stitch (2011), and Lutradur and the New Fibers (2011).
Wendy Cotterill runs regular workshops for quilters and textile artists on how to use creative computer software. She has a BA in Fine Art, and is a qualified teacher. Wendy has twenty years' experience of teaching fashion, textiles and computing to adults, runs an online shop and blog, and is also the author of Spunbonded Textile and Stitch (2011), and Lutradur and the New Fibres (2011).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Digital technology
Image basics
Image-editing software
Basic image adjustments
Printer inks
Printing on fabric
Using colour
Creative techniques
Image effects using filters
Using text in images
Digital collage
Pattern repeats
Taking things further
Collecting images
Gallery

Suppliers
Further reading
Glossary
Index