Printing

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.