PRODUCTION-process - workshop test
MAKING A PREP WORKSHOP WITH THE SURFACE DYEING
- to get an idea of time and how the workshop would actually proceed
- to feel more confident with analog surface printing
- to work out the health and safety surrounding a potential workshop with this
- cut pieces 20x15cm (4x5 pieces=20 pieces and a 80x25cm triangle. banner is 00cm wide total and 80cm high).
Dye plan
- tanin pre-mordant at home - monday night
- alum mordant & make printing paste at home - tuesday night
- start applying KHIO - wednesday afternoon
- finish applying + airdry overnight - thursday afternoon
- overdye and dry - friday
- sew together - saturday evening
Recipe used
- 300g vinegar
- 25g ferrous sulphate
- 14g guar gum
- 600ml reinfann dye concentrate
Pilot workshop video - password: okern
PUTTING IT TOGETHER & INSIGHTS
- 1,5hrs to make 8 flags (20x15cm)
- had to stop after 1,5hrs to take a break from the vinegar smell, and I was hungry.
- vinegar thing? the workshop is very well ventilated what if the spaces I hold the workshop in aren’t well ventilated? how long will people be exposed to vinegar actually? if theyre just doing one flag maybe there isn1t that much exposure.
- OR should this just a summer thing and only take place where the banner will be raised?
- fun with found objects!!!
- probably need less time printing ? more time drawing and planning/figuring out what one will put on their own flag first? which avoids having too mch exposure to the vinegar smell too.
- putting the mini-flags in an order to be sewn also took a while, I was just putting them in an order that I thought looked pretty. but maybe that could be part of the workshop is deciding whether there is an order to the mini-flags, whether they tell a bigger story when they are sewn together.
FINAL RESULT - password video: okern.