Two-toned devore

I have been experimenting with dying devore velvet in order to achieve a two-toned effect.

Firstly I mixed my chosen kenethrol acid dye colours with the fixatve ammonium sulphate and in a separate tub procion mx dyes with sodium chloride. 

The kenethrol dye is then added first into a cold dye bath (hot water not being heated) and the procion dye last. 

In theory the kenethrol colour should dye the back of the velvet and the procion should dye the front, so when it is devored the fabric should result in two different colours.

This however doesn't always work. I only managed to achieve two successful two-toned devore velvet samples. 

Monoprinting

I wanted to create large scale mono prints. For this I rolled mono printing ink directly onto the print table. I enlarge my chosen drawings to approximately 52cm x 1.4 meters in Adobe illustrator and printing it out in sections onto A3 paper. After matching the pieces together and placing it on top of wall lining paper I was ready to print.

To achieve thick bold lines I used the rounded end of my scissors, the wrong side of my pen and my knuckles.

I like the sections where the ink was perhaps still wet and has stuck to the paper without my intention. It adds texture to the print.

I quite like these large scale monoprints. Perhaps, I can go even larger scale or add some machine embroidery to it.