PAPER LAMINATION & BEYOND

Claire Benn & Leslie Morgan | April 19-23, 2010

SUPPLY LIST

To ensure the best and most appropriate media, materials and tools are available, a materials fee will cover the use of:

• Media: Matte and Gloss acrylic mediums, fabric paints (including metallics), glues & fusible web, Aluminium and Copper metal leaf, Procion Mx dyes (as thickened paints), Discharge Paste.

• Materials: art papers, tissue paper, masking tape, cover film, freezer paper, photocopy paper, newsprint, sheet plastic.

• Tools: scrapers, monoprinting plates, foam and bristle brushes, needle-nose bottles, soldering iron/hot knife.
  
  

STUDENT REQUIREMENT LIST

Whilst the supplies fee will cover many of the items, you’ll still need to bring…

Paper:

• Newspaper cuttings; start looking at the newspaper with a different eye from now on; cut out photographs that appeal in terms of content, colour or texture. Clip articles that interest you and so forth – start a file right now and just stuff clippings in to it – cut/tear fairly neatly as you’ll essentially be collaging from your stash. To pre-prepare, tear or cut off any white edges. One important point to consider is that of copyright. You can choose to end up with fragments of the original source material but you also have the option to integrate whole pictures/images. If this is the case, plan to use your own photographs and imagery, rather than use/copy a picture that someone else has taken.

• Printed Paper; this can be newspaper, photocopies or laser prints in either black and white or colour. The key requirement is POOR paper stock; no coated paper such as magazine or photographic-quality paper. Consider copying or printing:

• your own photographs: using your own photographic images in conjunction with cloth is hugely rewarding. If you’re computer-savvy, consider fooling around with some first on Adobe Photoshop or similar. • personal design work such as mono-prints, pages of marks etc. • images of your own textile work: it can be fun to create new work that has images of past work embedded in it. • personal documentation; your own journals, poetry, birth certificates, school reports etc.

• Print everything on 80gsm photocopy or laser paper to any size and bring the equivalent of up to 50 pages of A4 (USA Letter) printed matter. Once printed, tear or cut off any white edges before you come to the class.

• IMPORTANT NOTE: we avoid using home-generated inkjet prints as some inkjet printers bleed with the lamination process - but it’s impossible to establish this in advance. So, in order to avoid poor results, take your images on a CD or portable hard drive to the copy shop (e.g. Kinkos) and get them colour copied/printed. Equally, you can choose to bring a CD or portable hard drive with you and organise your printing at a local copy shop. Either way, we suggest you bring imagers in electronic format as this will allow you to get additional prints as the class progresses. Once you understand the process, you can test ink-jet prints at home.

Fabric:

• 8 yards of polyester organza/sheer in white or cream. Note: we can arrange to supply a super-sheer polyester at approximately $7 a metre (the price will ultimately be determined by the UK/US exchange rate!).  If you would like us to supply your polyester, please let us know 4 weeks before the class so we know what quantity to ship in advance.

• 2 yards of a good quality, natural fabric (cotton, silk, linen, rayon, hemp or mixes thereof). Please pre-scour this fabric as you will be using it with laminated stencils and Mx dyes.

• I yard of black discharge fabric cotton for use with Formosol discharge paste (this is optional).

• 2 yards of medium-weight muslin for use with fabric paints (no need to pre-scour).

Other stuff:

• Silkscreens: please bring 3. A variety of sizes is useful, e.g. 8” x 10” (small), 12” x 18” (medium) and 18” x 24” or 24” x 24” (large). Screens can be purchased from Dharma Trading (www.dharmatrading.com) or Dick Blick (www.dickblick.com).

• Favourite thermofax screens if you have them. We hope to have access to a thermofax machine for the class and will advise as soon as this is confirmed.

• Tools: you’ll see that a good supply of tools will be provided but if you have specific tools you wish to use, then bring them.

• One 4-yard length of cotton drill or something sturdy to use as a drop cloth on the worktable

• Apron (or wear the equivalent of gardening/decorating clothes)!

• Comfortable, rubber soled shoes (you’ll spend a fair amount of time on your feet)

• 1 pair of rubber gloves

• Disposable gloves (if you don’t like getting fabric paint or acrylic binder on your hands)

• Notebook and/or sketch book.

• Scissors (suitable for paper and cloth).

• A hairdryer (in case of poor weather).
  
  

Please email Claire or Leslie if you have any queries or questions:
Claire Benn: cb@committedtocloth.com
Leslie Morgan: lm@committedtocloth.com

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