The main printing technique I used to print onto fabrics for testing was a linocut print. I chose to print using lino because I thought it would be the easiest technique to use to produce the best, detailed print I could do.
Overall I did 2 different linocut prints, one was a stamp-style picture of Queen Elizabeth II's face and the other was of a diamond to represent the Diamond Jubilee, with a fancy pattern around it. I decided to use the image of Queen Elizabeth II's face because I thought it had more relevance to the task and would be more easily indentified as to what it is.
First of all, I drew on the lino with pencil, then I cut into the pencil lines with the lino cutter. Next was to find a piece of cloth big enough to do some tester prints onto. I chose 2 different colours to print with onto 2 different pieces of material, 1 in red and 1 in blue to represent the red, white and blue of the Union Jack. I put some paint into a tray and spread it out in the tray with a roller. Then I used the roller to paint-up my lino cut, making sure the paint is complete covering the lino. Then I placed the lino onto the rolling press and placed the fabric on the lino cut image then just simply rolled the image and fabric through the machine to produce the print.
We have been asked by the Warrington Wolves Foundation on behalf of the Chester City Management to help design a garment for the Queens visit to Orford Park, Warrington to open the Orford Park Project and to mark her Diamond Jubilee. The Chester City Management want to make this project to bring communities closer together for the Diamond Jubilee.
Chester City Management commissioned Nick Elphick to design and make 60 giant sculptures of the Queens head. The heads are for statues that will be used in parades across the Cheshire area and will be decorated with the prints made by various schools and colleges within the Cheshire community. We, in the art and design department, have been asked to design prints for a garment for one of the statues, with the garment made out of material supplied by the Warrington Wolves Foundation and actually made by the fashion department in college.
