[Noisebridge-discuss] decorating oddly-shaped spandex?

Glen Jarvis glen at glenjarvis.com
Wed Apr 21 15:27:26 UTC 2010


While we're on the fabric kick, and talking about oddly shaped spandex.

I've had an idea I wanted created the past year. I thought of  
noisebridge often when I thought of this project.

My biggest issue is that I just want to 'buy' it because I don't know  
how to make it (well). And that's not real do-acracy --

However, if anyone is interested in the idea here it is...  I've been  
cycling with the AIDS Lifecycle training team. And that's a lot of  
time outdoors - even with sunscreen. I wanted a full face mask  -out  
of the same wicking and cool (Lycra-like) material we see in the bike  
shirts, etc. It needs to block sunlight and not pool sweat in your  
eyes. Also, if anyone else will respect / buy one, having it match  
certain shirts, etc would be helpful. Having it designed by a designer  
or someone who knows what they're doing (not me) would be helpful.

When I would visit my grandmother as a young child, she had a metal  
tin with swatches of fabric, buttons, thread and needles. Sewing  
buttons on those pieces of fabric, sewing them together and making  
things was always great fun as a kid (wow, I was trusted with needles  
at 8 - although I do remember clucking and concern).

I even did a little bit joining two pieces of fabric on a sewing  
machine. But that's the extent of it. I could easily make something,  
but how to get it to cleanly match the contours of the face is hard : 
(. Having it be comfortable for long (all day, 60-80 mile) bike rides  
seems hard too..

Who knows maybe you start a trend like to leg warmer socks of the  
80s... I don't care as long as I can cut down my exposure and I don't  
look too incredibly reficulous -- I've seen a real difference in my  
face the past two years - even with sunscreen. :(.

Glen

On Apr 21, 2010, at 2:17 AM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:

> 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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