Puff Binder and finishing touches - Textiles Workshop Day 4

For my last session in textiles,  i decided to experiment with Puff Binder before adding finishing touches to my work.
Puff Binder is a paste that when heated up, gives a 3D effect to fabric. Puff Binder used straight from the pot will give you a white print, but you can mix it with other pigment inks to get pastel shades.
To use Puff Binder, you use the same method that i did in the last session with screen printing, but instead of using pigment inks, i used this paste. Although the Puff Binder gives good effects, it can only be used on the same screen twice as it easily blocks the screen mesh. To stop this you have o make sure that no paste is left on the screen when you wash it.
To create the 'puff' effect whilst using Puff Binder, you have to add heat to it. To do this i layed my material on a cutting mat, and lightly waved a  heat gun over the fabric, making sure i move it around the whole piece so that i did burn or scorch any area's, and that the whole piece 'puffed' up. I used Puff Binder on many backgrounds, such as fabrics and also newsprint.

Health and Safety
Be aware of hot surfaces when using the heat gun.
Wear protective rubber gloves and apron.
Be aware of wet floors in the wash out area.

Puff Binder on dyed newsprint.

After experimenting with Puff Binder, i was now able to add to some of my pieces, adding stitching and creating new effects.
One of the things that i did was to go over the pattern on a piece that i had screen printed to make it stand out more. I did this by 'drawing' around the pattern using a type of black pigment ink.
I also ripped up dyed fabrics and then sewed them back onto a new piece of fabric to get a different effect.

Outlining a screen print pattern.

Cutting and sewing dyed fabric back together.

Adding stitching to my screen print works.

Puff Binding over the top of different fabric textures.