Friday, October 17, 2008

New fabrics in production!

Down at the studio we're still traveling along the learning curve, fine tuning our processes and making things easier and smoother. We're still a little way off printing for other people but have done a bunch of test runs that are more than worthy of going in my shop! First they have to be heat-set though, so they wont appear in the shop for another week or so:


Acacia in plum on cream


New Birch test run on some white demin courtesy of Mattt


Printing the new Birch in gold - reach! (this is actually a lot easier than it looks)


Temporary drying solution (lucky we can offset our carbon emissions from this baby)


Acacia on natural, work in progress.

26 comments:

Alex Louisa said...

Love those long shots of the Birch trees!

Jodie said...

OMG That long shot of the birch trees immediately had me thinking of Japanese screens or room dividers....

Michelle Engel Bencsko said...

It's happening! It's really happening! How wonderful.

five dot design said...

oh i LOVE watching this process! this is fantastic!

Craftlover said...

wonderful work! :)

Anonymous said...

absolutely loving the plum acacia, beautiful....

Jasmine Mirra said...

I love looking at photos from your studio. I think it's very inspiring to see you working on stuff! And, what you work on is really fabulous!

bella said...

How do you heat set it? This is such a cool learning experience. i love it.

Hyena In Petticoats said...

Yellow birch! eeeeeeeep! I'm getting my hands on some of that for sure......

Seeing it all in one piece like that makes me want about a thousand yards of it - you should do wallpaper!

Leah xxx

Anonymous said...

I adore these prints and seeing the process in action. The long photo of the birch fabric.... divine!

Wendy said...

ack! these look so awesome. how do you line up each print??.. they look so perfect!

Corrie said...

I am just loving the action shots of the whole process its so great to see what happens!!! keep them coming its fascinating!

Corrie:)

Anonymous said...

How tall do those birch trees look!

This all looks fantastic, thanks for showing us the behind-the-scenes shots ;)

Renae said...

OH! I love the acacia! I can't wait until it's available!

mizu designs said...

Oh how fantastic Lara! Those textiles look good enough to eat.

leslie said...

everything is looking fabulous! i'm loving all of these behind the scenes shots, so fascinating

leslie said...

everything is looking fabulous! i'm loving all of these behind the scenes shots, so fascinating to see parts of the process.

Sarah and Jon said...

We love watching the process too! It looks like great fun!

Littleclouds said...

hey there, lovely blog, may I ask if it is very difficult to join the prints together? When the ink overlaps is it noticeable? Going to look at the rest of your blog now ta ra!

Kristen Doran said...

The birch trees looks amazing on the tables!!!

Danielle said...

Looking good!!

edward and lilly said...

They look gorgeous, how exciting!

Pollipop said...

beautiful work!
the plum acacia is gorgeous...

Anonymous said...

What amazing prints, love them all!

Anonymous said...

Wow! It's like a great Mister Rogers episode!

Still Life Mercantile said...

The test run on the denim would make the most amazing curtains for the fitting rooms of my little shop.