Ink on fabric

What's worse than getting ink on your favorite shirt or maybe even your sofa? While an ink stain may seem like a death sentence for clothes, it's actually really easy to get out. You only need two things to get ink stains out of clothes and fabric...let me show you how!

Over the past few months I've been experimenting with different ways of making marks on cloth. While I love the linear marks I have been producing with shibori and other techniques, I don't want to just keep repeating myself. So I've been shaking things up. I

Flour resist with fabric paint

ink and bleach drawings by Jule Mallett

Does bleach scare you? It scares me! Now that you were brave enough to get past the title of this post, I’m excited to tell you about my adventures dyeing fabric with bleach. The effect is si…

Very less do we know that we can create textures and pattern with the things easily available at home. Here are few interesting ideas to try with fabric dying..

Making one of a kind prints is an intense process. Sometimes the picture is created on the surface, by working in the ink. Other times I am using drypoint, collagraph and chine collé, or a combinat…

Monoprinting is a lovely technique that allows printmakers to be spontaneous, painterly and experimental. This simple monoprint project produces beautiful delicate prints using a piece of scrim and an etching press. Begin with a piece of perpex, a plastic inking plate or a sheet of drypoint plastic. use masking tape to tape off a rectangle on your perspex. … Continue reading "Monoprinting with Scrim"

Metaphoric failure.

Untitled (for Dana), 2019, Safety pins, yarn, twine, recycled plastic, ink and acrylic on washcloth and canvas - William J. O'Brien

I am back with another Valentine’s day inspired fashion DIY, today I will be showing you how to use alcohol inks to create a cool ink drop t-shirt, I will…