Texilac Experiments

Texilac binder screen printed on the back of silk in geometric dot design.

Printing using texilac in this particular design on the back of silk gave a ruched effect. This was an unexpected outcome. Although this is interesting, it's not something that I want to use in my collection.

I then printed with texilac binder in a hexagon design on the back of digitally printed velvet. It had the desired effect in terms of having a strong line quality and very little ruching, however the fabric did gather at the edges.

The next stage of my experimentation with texilac was to produce a screen of heaxagons which are gradually decreasing in size, with much thinner lines than my previous screen to prevent ruching) 

From left: Decreasing by three quarters, decreasing by half then three quarters.

The fabric on the left is the effect that I want to achieve. The next stage will be a case of enlarging the design so that it can be printed on my 140cm by 1m digitally printed velvet without changing the size of the lines.