[Noisebridge-discuss] decorating oddly-shaped spandex?

Rachel McConnell rachel at xtreme.com
Wed Apr 21 09:17:34 UTC 2010


Fortuitously this was just on the front page of Instructables:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Screenprinting-Easy-Detailed-Inexpensive/

This is the simplest of all the silk-screen processes I've ever read
about.  I haven't done any myself though so can't personally guarantee
results.  I'd totally be up for messing around with screen printing at
NB over the course of a couple days, though; I've been meaning to try
this for ages.

I can expand a bit on the notion Sean touched on about stretchiness.
There is a range of material available to decorate fabrics.  At one end
are inks or dyes which will sink into the fiber and dye it, and be
completely stretchy with the fabric.  At the other end are paints, or
colored glues, that sit on top of the fabric and won't stretch
significantly, but will be visible on dark or black fabric even if they
are much lighter.  The former seems better for your purposes but you may
want to consider starting with a white garment and dying the background
black around whatever design you end up with.

Rachel

Mikolaj Habryn wrote:
> The stretching pattern is largely predictable, though -
> http://www.makemeheal.com/mmh/product.do?id=10064 is an example of the kind
> of thing I have in mind. My foremost random idea involves printing a
> subcutaneous musculature design that would sit in about the right place.
> 
> Also, what happened to all those kawaii flu masks that were everywhere a few
> years ago? Combining a nicely printed one of those with the above would be
> great, although at that point a ninja theme might be less disturbing than
> pure anatomy.
> 
> m.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Sean Cusack <sean.p.cusack at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I think a print is could hose you bad...just trying to plan for the
>> stretching and pulling will be a nightmare...even before the washing. Think
>> tattoo on some 90 year old boobs.
>>
>> Why not try something that sits on top of the fabric but has its own
>> backing - stickers/patches (maybe?) To do pinstripes, maybe consider that
>> weird puffy paint shit (i.e.
>> http://www.ssww.com/item/color-splash-puffy-paint-PT3378/?cm_mmc=Data%20Feeds-_-Froogle-_-CMB-_-PT3378&cid=900&aid=FRG).
>> You'll be able to apply it like makeup after your face thingy is already
>> stretched out to avoid all the problems with trying to make your pinstripes
>> straight when the garmet is in non-spandex mode. Is the spandex thingy
>> expendable? Like, could you buy another if one got toasted? This is the big
>> problem you could hit with stitching...after several tense to relax
>> movements (*snicker*), the garment could get shredded.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> ...whose underwear is always in non-spandex mode
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm keen on a some kind of digital print process that will survive washing
>>> and on a stretch fabric. Does such a thing exist?
>>>
>>> m.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, silkscreen seems the most obvious thing.  Of course, it's not great
>>>> for a one-off.  (Why doesn't Noisebridge have a logo silkscreen yet?)  You
>>>> could probably do something interesting and artistic with fabric paints like
>>>> these:
>>>> http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/2518921-AA.shtml
>>>>
>>>> Christie
>>>> _______
>>>> "We also briefly discussed having officers replaced by very small shell
>>>> scripts." -- Noisebridge meeting notes 2008-06-17
>>>>
>>>> The outer bounds is only the beginning.
>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/genriel/sets/72157623376093724/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Mikolaj Habryn <dichro at rcpt.to> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm going to be wearing a "facial garment" that looks somewhat like this
>>>>> -
>>>>> https://id217.chi.us.securedata.net/fstubbs.com/merchantmanager/index.php?cPath=11_12 -
>>>>> for a number of months. While they do apparently come in black, I can't help
>>>>> but feel that being able to print onto them would be brilliant. Are there
>>>>> processes that work onto such things?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm imagining everything from basic pin-stripe patterns through to
>>>>> anatomically accurate windows into musculature layout, or shapelock horns
>>>>> attached, mohawks, pinhead rigs, you name it. What are the easy places to
>>>>> start, given that I know thing (I say, *nothing*) about crafty things?
>>>>>
>>>>> m.
>>>>>
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