For my Final Major Project I will be producing a furnishing fabric lenth and a wallpaper length. These will be perfectly in industry standard repeat sizes. To learn how to do this I had a workshop to work in a team and produce a 3.5 metre length. First job of the day was changing the backing cloth on the print table, what a process! 2 hours it took between 5 of us!

Then to sort koda traces, screens and dyes! So much preparation goes into it before the screen printing can actually go ahead and this is the whole process. Take a look and see what I've been up to!

Mixing up dyes and pastes in the dye lab! It looks messy but its very presice!

3.5 metres of Spun silk in a hot bath with DS Acid rubine red and cobolt blue.

It was rinsed for around 20 mins to get every single last bit of dye out because if they was any left in, it would taint the colours printed onto the fabric.

Then it was dried and ironed the pinned out with samples, ready to be printed!

Putting the koda traces on the screen shiny side up, putting screen in the exposure unit and then the vacuum sucks. design is then on the screen and then it is to be washed and dried, gum stripped around the edges to cover where the screen emulsion hasn't hit. Then we are ready for print

These are the stops on the print tables, that you have to measure your repeat by and then move each stop to the length of your repeat so therefore when you print and put the right angle on all stops, it puts the screen in exactly the right place, right down to the millimetre! (if you hav measured your repeat and stops correctly ofcourse!)

Because its a large furnishing fabric design they has to be two people doing the pull through, the screen itself is around 1.5metres long.

These are some of the first pull throughs and the result.

Startings of Final Major Project! I now have until May to show everyone what I'm made of and what I can really do!

My theme is florals with a twist, however you will have to keep on the look out to wait for my development pictures to come up to find out what that twist is!!

Let me know what you think so far! Thanks! :)

These are the boards i did right at the beginning of my project, this is the look and feel i wanted for my wallpapers.

Market Research Board

Inspiration Board with all primary photographs on

Colour Story Board

And here are my final painted out wallpapers! I'm really pleased with them and I'm so proud of myself for doing what I set out to do when I wrote my own brief 8 weeks ago. I feel I have managed my own project for the very first time from start to finish without a great deal of help from my tutors and that what I wanted; less contact time to see how well I could do on my own two feet.

And I think I've done pretty great!

here are my final A2 bedding boards! i am hoping to take these along to the prestegious interiors trade show, Print Source 2012 in New York!