Printmaking Finally Gets Proper Press Coverage
While sitting my phrenologist’s waiting room recently, I couldn’t help but notice the February issue of Nylon sitting on the rack between Highlights and Ranger Rick. For those of you who don’t know, Nylon is a magazine noted for it’s investigative journalism and social justice mission. … oh wait, I’m thinking of Mother Jones. Nylon is a fashion magazine dedicated to beauty, celebrity gossip and trend chasing.
This issue featured an article aptly titled, “Prints Charming” written by fashion features editor, Rajni Lucienne Jaques and photographs by Peggy Anne McDonnell. This article is a process interview with Sue Stemp, a british fashion designer living in New York. And it seems print factors very highly in Sue’s new line-up. Read on..
“Print making is so much fun,” say Stemp, giggling. She is sprawled out on a cream colored leather couch with a streak of blue paint, in the New York City studio where she hand-screens all of the fabric in her collections.
Shortly we learn that artist and designer Ben Copperwheat is a collaborator in the process. What follows is a description of screen printing fabric that I’ll save for my next intro class.
She starts of by making a screen of the print, presses it onto fabric- immediately letting it dry for about ten minutes- and then moves onto the next garment, trying not to smudge it. “There is only one downside to the whole process,” Says Stemp. The part where I have to clean up”.
I couldn’t have put it better myself. If you hurry you may be able to find a copy at your local magazine emporium.
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