Procion Dye, Silk Screen Printing, and Emulsion Transfer

During the last week of my FMP I experiment with procion dye on paper and silk screens, and creating prints with manutex. My original experimentations were simply creating different layers of procion dye and blending them together to create a style similar to Edith Meijering.

After these experiments I attached black and white A3 images to silk screens with masking tape and painted the top with procion dye, again using colours that would create a style similar to Meijering.

I printed out multiple versions of my most successful prints and covered them in Dylon Image Maker and left them over night to dry. I used different sized pieces of calico to capture different sections of each image. When it came to removing the printed images with water, I was sometimes too rough and ripped small sections of the images.



Images covered in Dylon Image Maker and Calico

Printed image removed with water

While my transfers were successful overall, I would like to use new images to print onto calico or a similar fabric straight away as I prefer the texture of the fabric showing through the images rather than having a layer of thin paper on top.