SURFACE DEVELOPING
" creation of artwork, prints, and designs that can be applied to a surface—
anything from fabric "
Surface texture is indispensable in fashion and textile design that also factors heavily into innovative creations. Along with technological advances in the fashion industry, surface texture has derived many new and attractive features that provide more opportunities for designers to show various design concepts. Rather than the surface quality of fabrics, surface texture in fashion design creates its identity through a manipulation of materials- an application that tends to be primarily for visual effects without being restricted to decorative purposes.
PIGMENT DYEING WITH EXPLORATION IN TYE DYE
Tie-dye is a term used to describe a number of resist dyeing techniques and the resulting dyed products of these processes. The process of tie-dye typically consists of folding, twisting, pleating, or crumpling fabric or a garment, before binding with string or rubber bands, followed by the application of dye or dyes.
HISTORY ABOUT TYE DYE
The earliest written records about tie-dye come from China and Japan. The process was used during the T’ang Dynasty in China and the Nara Period in Japan as far back as the 6th century. People used natural dyes from berries, leaves, roots and flowers to color clothing. These natural items were boiled, and the fabrics then soaked in the hot, dyed water to take on a new color.
SCREEN PRINTING
Screen printing, also known as silk screening or silkscreen printing, is the process of transferring a stencilled design onto a surface using a mesh screen, ink, and a squeegee (a rubber blade). Fabric and paper are the most commonly screen-printed surfaces, but with specialised inks it's also possible to print onto wood, metal, plastic, and even glass.
HISTORY
It first rose to popularity in the 18th century, when it became easy to import silk mesh - a key component of screen printing - from the East. In the 19th century, screen printing became prevalent in the advertising world, and from then on, it has been used widely across many industries, including retail and electronics due to the easy customisation possibilities it affords.
BLOCK MAKING AND BLOCK PRINTING
Hand carved blocks and hand painted surface
Block making and block printing are the oldest technique to create designs or patterns on fabrics manually. Block printing is a textile art where the wooden blocks are carved finely by hand to form a design on fabrics. The earlier wooden block was having very simple structures without the handle and was pressed on the fabric with hand. Sagwaan wood locally known as Saag or Sagi is considered as the best for the block making because it is easily available locally and found abundantly in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. The colour of the Sagwaan is golden yellow, which turns into dark brown in colour slowly and then to black colour with the age. The important feature is the natural oil in the wood, which helps in its preservation. The sagwaan wood is easy to carve excellently, due to the lack of fibers. Then the wood will be seasoned for the durability of the block.
ART OF BLOCK MAKING AND PRINTING
Block making is an art that repetitively develops with the changes in the fabric printing. The basic design of the block changed noticeably with the development of textile printing.
The Pethapur block makers believe that many centuries ago, women got bored with the white plain clothes and they started to create their garments designs by dipping bangles in colour. The carpenters observed and decided to offer women with several designs and then they started hand block printing on fabric.
HAND PAINTING
Persian motif design and painting
Fabric painting is a technique used by art quilters to create or enhance their quilt designs. Fabric can be wet or dry when painted each will yield different results. The type of paints also vary from opaque to translucent as well as shimmers. Techniques and tools can vary from very simple to incredibly complex.
HOW IT GOT STARTED
Humans have been painting on fabric for thousands of years, basically since people started twisting and weaving fibers together to make the first fabrics. Techniques that were used to decorate the body began to be applied to the earliest fabrics that were developed. Two basic methods emerged: coloring (directly applying an image with color to the fabric) and patterning (painting or printing with resists in patterns and then coloring the fabric).
WAX BATIK BLOCK PRINTING
Using pure cotton fabric
Batik print is an art of hand block & freehand prints by pasting wax on cloth before dipping in eco friendly dyes (not completely natural) and is treated for colour lasting. Batik is a traditional Indonesian art form where dye is applied directly onto cloth using wax. This process creates beautiful patterns that are then used to decorate clothing and other items.
HISTORY OF BLOCK BATIK
It Is Believed That The Term Is A Derivation From The Word `Ambatik’ Which When Translated Literally Stands For A Piece Of Cloth With Small Dots Or Writing With Wax Or Drawing In Broken Lines. BATIK DYEING is an ancient wax resist dyed fabric tradition of Java, Indonesia. The exact history of Batik is uncertain, G. P. Rouffaer argues that the technique might have been introduced during the 6th or 7th century from India or Sri Lanka.
