a shoal of piranhas: hand printed fabric pocket on canvas bag

making three of these piranha pocket canvas bags for sale at the AWARE flea market. $15.00 each! I take orders too : )

SURFACE 1°22 : the opening

a shoal of piranhas: hand printed fabric packaged!

a shoal of piranhas: handmade bag complete!

made this bag to carry my belongings to the exhibition opening : )
will be producing a limited number to be sold at the AWARE community day flea on 27th Nov! They will go for $20 each

SURFACE 1°22 : sneak peek of set up

vinyl stickers installed!

Maria installing with Emily overseeing

combination of machine and hand embroidery by Susie Rees. She teaches embroidery class in the Fashion
faculty. I really love what she is doing. Never done hand/machine embroidery before and would really love
to learn all these wonderful techniques! : )

got an elongated pedestal and Emily suggested for me to cover the top surface with one of my full length hand
printed fabrics. loved the idea, so ironed it then stuck double sided tape at the edges to secure the sides down.



some folded scrap hand printed fabric on the surface of the pedestal

a shoal of piranhas: book series complete for SURFACE 1°22

It was a good day of screen-printing. I have to thank Emily and Maria for allowing me access to the textiles workshop. If not for their assistance, I would have never been able to produce my own photo-silkscreen, and an opportunity for its prints to emerge on fabric (my first time!!) .


i'm starting to accept that i cannot help the imperfections that turned up during printing. hence, i'm not feeling that stressed at all. : )

the screen had problems again, while coating in the morning, the emulsion was very jelly-like with clumps of thick,hardened portions. had to deal with it.

here's the tiled width , one out of the
full length of 3m of brown polyester i got
the parts that didn't show up/are too
dark was due to the fact the the long
squeegee i usedhas been worn out at
the sides and hence,was unable to evenly
push ink through the screenprint's edge.

anyway, even though i'm disappointed, a positive consolation is that i was able to tile only width wise. also, ive decided to create fabric journals as the final pieces so i'll just use the good parts.


Marrick took baby Pachunkoo home and I'm glad!

mixing inks: want to get a print that looks
close to black but is actually dark chocolate brown

i didn't check my screen, didn't realise that
the coating was uneven, leading to this. . .
more of the right portion had too much ink
throughbecause the emulsion layer was too thin
as compared to the other areas zzzzzzzzz......

only the left part works for now
where printing is concerned.

my intention of printing a full 3m length of fabric for display in the surface design show cannot be done, unless i redo my screen again, and hope that it will work out. : ( that'll have to wait... till wednesday.

bought these beautiful polyester and cotton fabrics to print on. got them at $2 per metre for polyester and calico(6m), and 3m at $3 per metre for cotton.