Lesson 09, 18 October 2018

Fiber etching is a technique that removes plant fibers such as silk, cotton, linen, and rayon yarns. The subtractive method create etched patterns that can be often seen on gown dress. It is an expensive technique for its laborious and repetitive process of ironing to slowly strip off the fibers.

Materials: Fiber etching gel, 100% natural velvet fabric, silk screen frame, squeegee, plastic cups, stirrers

Place velvet fabric under screen frame and pour etching gel across. Run gel across frame with squeegee. Slowly remove frame and leave it to dry.

It can be hardly seen on camera so I had to overexpose these photos (so sorry :’)). Unfortunately the etching gel wasn’t enough to remove the fibers. The velvet fabric was not entirely 100% natural to give the best result too.

 

Material application:

 

Sources:

http://www.wwwearables.com/fiber-etch/index.htm

Etched pillows by Kevin Obrein Studio – https://www.kevinobrienstudio.com/product-category/pillows/

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