Discharge Printing Techniques for Textiles
Degradés or Broken Inkwell
A course by Agave (Micaela Suide) , Specialized Textile Design Studio
About the video: Degradés or Broken Inkwell
Overview
“In this lesson, we will work on the split inkwell technique to generate a gradient, and we will see some works by Lee Ufan as an example. Additionally, we will develop small samples using rollers, a credit card, and the shablon. ”
In this video lesson Agave (Micaela Suide) addresses the topic: Degradés or Broken Inkwell, which is part of the Domestika online course: Discharge Printing Techniques for Textiles. Learn different methods for customizing colorful textile pieces using natural fibers like linen and cotton, and let the fabric speak for itself.
Partial transcription of the video
“Degradés or split inkwell We start our next unit. In this lesson we are going to see what the broken inkwell is or what we know as gradient. In this case we are going to be inspired on a Korean artist named Lee Ufan. What he did was put together many gradients using two or three colors, super simple. Let's start with what we saw in the previous unit of the curbs. Let's make a rectangle and, again, as I am going to apply it with a card, more or less I take the width of the card. What I'm going to do is thicken the limits so that what happened to me before doesn't happen to me in the lesson o...”
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Course summary for: Discharge Printing Techniques for Textiles
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Fashion Design, Printing, Textile Design, Textile Printing

Agave (Micaela Suide)
A course by Agave (Micaela Suide)
Created in 2015 by Argentine designer Micaela Suide, AGAVE's mission is to give textile craftsmanship a new lease of life by developing handcrafted prints that can be applied to a huge variety of products of differing scales.
They currently collaborate with publishers, furniture designers, architects, and local fashion stores. They sell their products in countries throughout Latin America, the United States, Denmark, and Australia. AGAVE has a strong social commitment through their teaching work and environmentally responsible approach.
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