Sampling

After experimenting with many different materials with my leaf screen I experimented with my screen which had my animal design on it. I experimented with different materials such as white muslin, cream muslin, heavy viscose silk, habotai silk light, cotton, calico and Devore fabric. My Devore sample didn't work well at all the image didn't print through as well as I had hoped. For the other materials I used I use some as the raw material and dyed some using the red -MXG procian dye, for all the prints I used black- SN-G pigment dye. I felt some samples worked better then others. The samples that worked the best was the white muslin (which was dyed), heavy viscose silk, cotton and calico, these worked the best as the materials seemed to compliment the print the texture f the material and the depth of the fibers all worked incredibly well with my print making it sharp and clear. The samples of habotai silk light and cream muslin didn't work well with my print. The habotai silk light was extremely think and floaty, and when dyed the colour faded extreme amounts. The fabrics would work so much better as a lining instead of a main feature. I personally didn't like the cream muslin as the texture of it was incredibly rough and my print didn't look as sharp as it did on the other materials.