On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:57:58 -0000, Jean wrote: >DH has successfully printed T-shirts with photos of birds that he took with >his digital camera. They came out extremely well because the colours were >bright and the images sharp. He used T-shirt transfer paper for inkjet >printers, which should be available from most computer supplies shops.
I've used the process Jean described to put an image of lace on a T shirt. First I adapted an out of copyright Bedfordshire design and made the lace, a motif about 10 cm tall, to avoid having to ask a designer for permission to use their copyrighted lace. Then I scanned the lace into my computer. It took several evenings of working with a graphics program to delete the background, mess around with filters till I decided on a wood effect, enlarge the image to about 25cm, clean up all the stray pixels of the wrong colour, and work out the relationship between colours on the screen and colours on the printer to get the image I wanted on paper. The transfer paper (from a photographic shop in my case) prints a bit darker than plain paper. Then I took a white T shirt, dyed it in once in yellow and then a second time in blue to get a greenish textured effect and printed the image on to the T shirt. Finally I had something I could wear and was pleased with. A few of you will have seen the finished item at UK or German Lace Guild conventions. I call it my 'Grinling Gibbons' as it is lace rendered in a wood effect. I did another pink and yellow piece of lace on a blue T shirt but wasn't quite as pleased with it. But sadly I have to report that 2 years on the transfer is flaking off the T shirt, despite having been washed by hand (well at least until it had substantial damage). So these things don't last. But now at least I only have to print out the picture again and find a T shirt to put it on. -- A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live. - Voltaire Steph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tatting, lace & stitching page <http://www.sandbenders.demon.co.uk/index.htm> - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
