This month we’re delighted to present a selection of beautiful printed textile projects by some of the talented members of our POP community. From abstract patterned, screen printed cushions, to stunningly illustrated silk scarves, and hand-dyed cotton shawls, our members exhibit great innovation when working with the medium.
Lou Rowland: An Linn Snámha
Lou recently created a small batch of screen printed cushion covers for her ongoing series An Linn Snámha’ – The Swimming Pool. Her illustrations and patterns were inspired by calming water, tiles, and splashes. The designs were printed at Print Clan, a fantastic open-access textile printing studio in Glasgow, which Lou is a member of. She screen printed onto large pieces of different Scottish Linens, using their 10 metre table. Each cushion cover was then sewn by Lou in Glasgow, measuring 45 x 45cm, and is unique with individual printing quirks and handmade quality.
Cally Conway: Linocut fabric design for Cocoon Home
Cally was asked by the home furnishing design company, Cocoon Home, to create a linocut fabric design for their new collection in 2019. The brief was to create a repeat design based around a traditional Ogee motif. Cally’s design was hand drawn, and features anenome flowers, bees, butterflies, and ears of wheat. The design was titled Nascency, which means beginnings or origins, and alludes to the cycle of nature. She created the repeat design using basic paper cut outs, and then transferred the design to lino. After carving the design, the print was hand coloured to consider different colour schemes. It was then scanned and printed digitally onto fabric with a choice of three different colour ways. The fabric was also used to upholster a sofa for the Cocoon Home stand in Decorex 2019.
Mathilde Roussillat Sicsic: Nina Ricci Bed Linen
For the Spring/Summer 2016 Nina Ricci bed linen collection, Mathilde worked on a selection of floral pattern designs. First, she drew a lace pattern inspired by the laces used by Guillaume Henri for the ready-to-wear collections. She then scanned and created a repeat pattern on Photoshop, changing the colours and aspect. The design was then pigment printed.
Danii Pollehn: Plant inspired Silk Scarf
For Danii, the year 2020 was mostly dedicated to plant and botanical illustration of any kind. To finish off the year, she decided to move on, thus created a small limited run of printed silk scarves. The first design is a kaleidoscopic plant foliage artwork, and the second is a scanned version of one of her gouache illustrations. “As a former fashion designer I love seeing my work on textiles and would love to do more of these, preferably a more sustainable version” says Danii.
Leigh Bagley: Digitally Printed Fabric
As a textile designer, printing onto fabric is a large part of Leigh’s working practice. In Drem, Leigh digitally printed his designs onto fabric which was then used as curtains by a client. This design is characteristic of Leigh’s signature style that deals with abstract pattern and colour, and where proportion, saturation and opacity of colour are carefully considered.
Sabine van Rooij: Black Lives Matter
Printmaker, Sabine van Rooij, explains; “I wanted to do something for the Black Live Matter movement, but didn’t know how to help”. Finally, she decided to create screen printed tote bags and t-shirts that people could purchase at a cost of their choice, with all of the profits going to stichting Nederland wordt beter, a Dutch anti-discrimination organisation.
Anna Sutherland: Screen Printed Linen Tea-towels
Textile designer and screen printer Anna Sutherland works from her home studio in rural NSW, Australia. Passionate about colour, Anna creates colourful, intricate patterned lengths of screen printed fabric and tea-towels. Her designs are mostly inspired by the geometric shapes in decorative jewellery pieces. Each design is initially hand drawn, before being transformed into a multi-colour repeat to be screen printed. Anna’s most recent addition to her textiles range is a collection of screen printed linen tea-towels.
Elyse DeLisle: Badlands & Enchantments / Plant Dyed & Hand Printed Shawls
This project was inspired by fall walks Elyse took through the Gateway to the Enchantments in Washington, as well as Badlands, South Dakota. The result was a collection of hemmed, organic cotton scarves and shawls that were all hand dyed using plant based dyes. Each piece sits in a dye bath for several days, before it is printed using hand-carved block prints. The patterns feature details from the respective landscapes. No colours were repeated, making each scarf and shawl in this project one-of-a-kind.
Emily May: Decadent Flags
Emily May has been working with textiles since she began practising screen printing, and has recently been exploring the format of flags. “I wondered: what would one’s own individual flag be?” says Emily May. These are some examples of flags that she would be proud to raise, representing statements of softness and compassion.
Follysome Prints: Sea Change
This Art Deco inspired pattern demonstrates the complexities that emerge when a seemingly simple shape is repeated. “I love that surprise element and this one begs for pops of colour, allowing the palette to tell the story and mood” says Mindy. Linocut printed onto linen, for Sea Change Mindy developed a specific palette of colours reflecting the varying moods of the sea. Black gradually mixes into navy blue, then her signature pale dusty blue and pops with ochre yellow. Coral gradually transforms to peach and taupe and pops with a sorbet yellow/orange. Mindy also created a floor length tapestry for a local arts space printed in white on black linen with pops of primary red for a totally different mood. The circle pops are impressions from champagne corks; “I like to believe they’re celebratory”.
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