Stamps & Templates
There are expensive stamps for sale at the art/craft shop, but I think it is much more fun to make your own stamps. When you’ve been doing that for a while, you’ll find inspiration everywhere… Go shopping at the local supermarket, go for a walk on the beach or just go through your trash. Some of my experiments were with potatoes, onions, sea shells, cork and toys.
There are wonderful templates for sale, but here as well, I’m looking for a technique to manipulate our own hand-cut paper templates, so we can use them several times.
Once we’ve made our stamps and templates, we can start to print on both paper and on fabric. A gel plate is a wonderful base for monoprinting, it all goes superfast without mess.
Materials?
I prefer to use acryl paint with textile medium. We use an iron to fix the paint.
To find a suitable, inexpensive paint/ink in Zanzibar will be a challenge… which we accept gladly ! Christine Felce, a British textile artist who was in Matemwe at the beginning of 2014 has already explored a bit & paved the road for us.
The cotton is available in Zanzibar. Zanzibari use it for the kanga. The kanga (the verb ku-kanga means to wrap or close) is a colourful garment, worn by women and occasionally by men throughout Middle-Africa. It is a piece of printed cotton fabric, about 1.5m by 1m.
And what we make…?
Our printed papers will serve as a front jacket to our booklet we’ll make with Joke.
With the cotton patches and printed T-shirts we’ll go to work with Rika. Embroidery on a printed cloth adds a precious dimension of both art & crafts, for book jackets, t-shirts or mini treasure boxes.
Last but not least, I’m also in charge of creating the cloth medallions An intends to use.
There are wonderful templates for sale, but here as well, I’m looking for a technique to manipulate our own hand-cut paper templates, so we can use them several times.
Once we’ve made our stamps and templates, we can start to print on both paper and on fabric. A gel plate is a wonderful base for monoprinting, it all goes superfast without mess.
Materials?
I prefer to use acryl paint with textile medium. We use an iron to fix the paint.
To find a suitable, inexpensive paint/ink in Zanzibar will be a challenge… which we accept gladly ! Christine Felce, a British textile artist who was in Matemwe at the beginning of 2014 has already explored a bit & paved the road for us.
The cotton is available in Zanzibar. Zanzibari use it for the kanga. The kanga (the verb ku-kanga means to wrap or close) is a colourful garment, worn by women and occasionally by men throughout Middle-Africa. It is a piece of printed cotton fabric, about 1.5m by 1m.
And what we make…?
Our printed papers will serve as a front jacket to our booklet we’ll make with Joke.
With the cotton patches and printed T-shirts we’ll go to work with Rika. Embroidery on a printed cloth adds a precious dimension of both art & crafts, for book jackets, t-shirts or mini treasure boxes.
Last but not least, I’m also in charge of creating the cloth medallions An intends to use.