Hints From Jerry Wrigged
Here's the problem:
you need to make more than 10, but fewer than 100 prints of
a simple design on cloth for, let's say patches for your co-op
or zine. Your budget is aproximately $0. Are you skrewed?
Not if you have a few simple things scattered about your domicile.
You need:
1. Spray paint, whatever color you want.
2. Plenty of scrap cloth from cut-offs or ugly
clothes from the free box. Try to find durable
solid colored cloth.
3. An exacto knife ( how I survived before
I had one of these, I do not know )
4. Heavy, stiff paper (for fewer than 20 prints)
or plastic transparency pages for more
5. A crappy rag for wiping
6. Any kind of tape will do
What you do with it:
1. Trace your design on the transparency paper or just draw it on
the paper. This will be your stencil.The more simple the
design, the better this whole project will turn out.
2. Carefully cut out the stencil using the exacto knife. Don't
make any of your lines too thin or they probably won't show up.
Keep in mind that anything that gets cut away will get painted.
3. Take your good cloth scraps and cut them to the proper size. You
want them to be large enough to accomidate your design
with a 1/4 in. border around it.
4. Now you want to go set up outside cuz we're getting to the
dangerous fumes part of the process. Tape down the sides
of a piece of cloth on a smooth surface. Now place the
stencil on it. Make sure there isn't any part of the stencil
turning up from the cloth.
5. Shake up your paint, hold it 6 in. from your work, and spray over
it once in a slow, steady, zig-zag.
6. Carefully and quickly remove the stencil. Now gently blot the
paint off your stencil with the rag. This prevents smudging
the next patch.
7. Untape the patch and put it somewhere dry and well ventilated to
dry out.
8. Repeat steps 4 - 7 until you're out of cloth or you have a headache.
9. Share your new patches with your friends.
