I am not a screen printer, but I am a spiller, and so when my favorite traveling dress developed an unsightly stain, I was eager to try a less technically savvy version of Karin's cool trick.
I have an India ink stamp pad and a collection of cool stamps that I use to personalize the reusable bags I package my jewelry in. You can find a similar one here. It's important not to use a regular run of the mill stamp pad, because the ink will not set and your clothing will be even more ruined than it already was.
Here's the offending stain pre-stamping: (It's not so visible in the picture, but believe me it was noticeable.)
Step 1: Test your stamp on a section of the fabric that is not visible when you wear the garment.
Step 2: Tape around the edges to protect the fabric you don't want to stamp. Slip a magazine inside the garment to give you a smooth stamping surface and to prevent the ink from bleeding through to the back of the fabric.
Step 3: Start stamping! I chose a stamp larger than my target stamping area because I wanted the image of the leaf to be abstract. I alternated the leaf position by rotating the stamp with each use. I tried to keep the images evenly spaced, but I just eyeballed it.
Step 4: Heat set: I blasted the stamped area with a hairdryer for a few minutes.
And that's it!
-MaryAnne LoVerme
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3 comments:
You are SO smart!
Thank you for sharing this, my mum and I both have that 'hole in the bottom lip' problem that causes stains on our tops (no, I don't mean that we have a piercing!).
Take care,
Julie Andrea
omg, i love that expression
THAT explains my problem - so glad to have a clever term for it now - sounds way classier than "I'm a spiller!"
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