During these 2 days you will:

• Familiarize yourself with the Graphixscan machine, learn about the different settings and the different effects you can achieve on all kinds of fabrics.
• Prepare graphic files from your designs ready to use with the laser*
• Experiment with varied methods including transfer printing, laminating, bonding, marquetry and surface etching for pattern creation.

About the workshop
The workshop will take place from 10am to 5pm at the Audax Textilemuseum.

An assortment of suitable fabrics will be provided for you to purchase for the workshop. You may also bring your own 100% synthetic fabric to try out, but results are then not guaranteed.   Please feel free to bring any of your own design work as inspiration for your workshop designs.

This workshop will be related to the upcoming exhibition reTHINK which will be held at the AUDAX Textile Museum in Tilburg from 25/9 2010 till 30/1 2011.

For more information regarding the show please check http://www.textielmuseum.nl/

NOTE:
This workshop is for advanced and (semi) professional level only, i.e. artists and/or teachers (textiles or fashion)

In this 2 day workshop the basic techniques of encaustic will be introduced, so as we saw earlier this year working with Daniella Woolf. The advantage of this workshop is that the teacher is (also) Dutch speaking, so that it will be easier to follow.

We will work on sturdy types of paper such as watercolour or handmade paper, birch plywood and/or wood and on special wooden frames. (NB. These frames will be supplied by the teacher.)

We will begin with preparation of the surfaces with e.g. encaustic gesso and/or watercolour paper; application of the encaustic medium and further surface treatments.

Photo transfer will be addressed using photocopies of images from students personal collection.

Complex effects will be achieved when colour is applied in layers.

Building texture plays an important role in this workshop: mixed media, fabrics and threads will be added to the surface and stencils used to add relief.

Several mediums and techniques will be used to explore line: e.g. etching & filling with coloured wax, stamping and personal graphite drawings and rubbings using Saral transfer paper.

During the workshop students will be encouraged to develop their own personal visual language.

Different tools will be introduced: students will have the chance to work with a special warming palette and they will also use a professional, adjustable IWATANI torch/burner using butane gas and as well as an electric hot wax art stylus.

For this workshop there will be additional charges for materials (info to follow).

NB: for those who are interested in gaining more information about this technique there are several English language publications and DVD's which can be ordered from Zijdelings. Also all necessary materials are already available from Zijdelings and can be also ordered on-line

A much requested day working with Thermofax

During this workshop every student will learn to make their own thermofax screens. Not only text but also designs will be used for this. Attention will be paid to creating personal designs.

These screens will be used in a creative way using a wide variety of mediums: thickened transfer paint, puff paste, rusting powder, transfer foils, embossing powders, discharge paste and textile paint.

Prints will be repeated and mediums combined to explore layering.

Synthetic fabrics and non wovens, cotton, silk and paper will be used for printing.

The knowledge gained in this workshop can be applied to future quilting & embroidery, fashion, book and paper projects.

Students will learn the basic techniques of making Pojagi (Korean patch work). They will learn several ways of fabric construction techniques  for Pojagis which also could be incorporated into fabric and or paper collages and or mixed media works.  While the technique is adaptable to many forms of work; 2-D, 3-D, either architectural, body ornaments, soft sculptures, and or wearables. ; participants' practice span intimate wearable works, through to large scale industrial installation. . Students will be challenged to think about 'wrapping' with new approaches, and to think conceptually. Works may have either a fine art or a design orientation.

A 3D-effect can be created by applying an extra thick layer of wax on specific places. As a finishing touch photocopies can be transferred, metal leaves or textile foils can be added. Also handwritten texts or handmade drawings on tracing paper with carbon pencils or crayons can be transferred onto the wax collage. 

Scratching in the top wax layer will create depth. Colour can be added by applying markal paintstiks. The result will be stunning!

General Description:
Build third dimension off a felted ground fabric through sampling and innovating a variety of wet felting, needle felting and machine stitching techniques. From subtle textural fields to bold protuberances, achieve dimension by partial felt appliqué, fusing pre-constructed fabrics, embedding solid felt forms, needle/wet felting complex felt forms to the surface, and using plastic resists for creating flapped, pocketed, and ridged textures. Additionally, free-motion machine embroidery will be used to crater thick felt and to manipulate thin felt into undulating fabric.

Tentative Schedule:
Day 1:
create pattern/design and imagery through the felting process using partial felts for felt appliqué and felt reverse appliqué to achieve control of textured patterning

Day 2:
embedding solid felt forms between layers of felt and fusing under layers of fabric

Day 3:
needle/wet felting complex and highly dimensional shapes for wet felt attachment to a background

Day 4:
using plastic resists to create surface flaps, caves and ridges

*Free-motion machine embroidery to be demonstrated and discussed throughout the whole course as samples dry
Note: Free-motion embroidery will be applied throughout the course on Day 2-4 when the felt is dry as sewing on wet felt oviously rusts the machines.

This class is for advanced felting level and teaches sampling techniques for building a vast array of surface textures which can be incorporated into a variety of 2D and 3D applications, however it is not a course in product development.

General Description:
Build third dimension off a felted ground fabric through sampling and innovating a variety of wet felting, needle felting and machine stitching techniques. From subtle textural fields to bold protuberances, achieve dimension by partial felt appliqué, fusing pre-constructed fabrics, embedding solid felt forms, needle/wet felting complex felt forms to the surface, and using plastic resists for creating flapped, pocketed, and ridged textures. Additionally, free-motion machine embroidery will be used to crater thick felt and to manipulate thin felt into undulating fabric.

Tentative Schedule:
Day 1:
create pattern/design and imagery through the felting process using partial felts for felt appliqué and felt reverse appliqué to achieve control of textured patterning

Day 2:
embedding solid felt forms between layers of felt and fusing under layers of fabric

Day 3:
needle/wet felting complex and highly dimensional shapes for wet felt attachment to a background

Day 4:
using plastic resists to create surface flaps, caves and ridges

*Free-motion machine embroidery to be demonstrated and discussed throughout the whole course as samples dry
Note: Free-motion embroidery will be applied throughout the course on Day 2-4 when the felt is dry as sewing on wet felt oviously rusts the machines.

This class is for advanced felting level and teaches sampling techniques for building a vast array of surface textures which can be incorporated into a variety of 2D and 3D applications, however it is not a course in product development.