After finishing off the warp on my rigid heddle loom the other day and printing on some samples (fairly successfully) I thought I must warp it up again today with some polyester, so I can test out printing on them again with sublimation. It only took me a couple of hours to thread it up. I used some plain white polyester from fairfield yarns and also thought I would try out using some white acrylic yarn that I found in a charity shop. I thought I would try and put both of these warps on the loom in one go to see how that worked?
I wove some small samples using the rubco yarn, just to see how the colours turned out using sublimation collages, with the polyester warp. I also did the same for the pemotex yarn which is supposed to go rigid when heated- I tried this the other day and didn't have the desired effect but I aim to try this again this week with the polyester warp-it might pick up the dye nicely?
I experimented with the melted straws and cables to then re melt this week in the heat press to see what happens.
I experimented with the melted straws and cables to then re melt this week in the heat press to see what happens.
I managed to warp up and thread the loom and finish the whole warp in one whole sunday, which means I can cut it off to experiment and play with this week.