Length Printing

Over the past few weeks I have been learning how to print a length.

To create a length I had to take my drawings and turn them into a print idea. I have to use acetate and tracing paper to get the pattern into repeat. I wanted all the flowers the same but in a slightly different arrangment, which made making a repeat pattern a little harder to create.

I had to cut my repeat in a wave shape so that I could fit it on my screen so that I didnt lose any of my pattern. I also had to re-draw my leaf shapes so that it would be easier to match up.

Here is a closer view of my work.



I wanted to print my lenght in three different colours. I didn't realise how much work went into getting it to match up, but now I feel that I could confidently create another repeat.

Here is some pictures of my final outcome.

A view of my final outcome. The print is done in three colours. I had to print the leaves first and then the flowers. I had to do it one step at a time and mask off lots of areas to get the required effect.

To get the leaves printed I had to cut stencils of the flower shapes to cover the flowers up whilst I printed the leaves.

To print the flowers I kept the outer stencils of the flowers and used them as the stencils to cover up the leaves.

I wanted to print the flowers in two different colours. I realised that this could take some time and some serious stencil cutting, so I decided to print the same colours at the same time. My pattern is in repeat so I put the colours in a diagonal so that when it was repeated it would repeat diagonally and go pink purple pink purple, like the image.

To print it I had to carefully pull one colour over the image, each colour at a time but without washing the screen. So I would pull the pink first and then pull the purple, trying to not mix the colours together.

I really enjoyed my print and I think that it has worked really well.

My print has been inspired by Cole & Son, the textile company. My trend idea was to make something traditional but with a modern twist. I call it modern Heritage. I have re-vamped some of the colours to give it that modern twist and slightly more feminin. I feel that once I have completed my other samples I think that the whole modern heritage trend will work well together as a collection.