Grid Fabric

I've tucked the pattern into the selection of grid fabric, moved it aside in Studio 301 for today's tour with the MAG council. About 20 women toured the studio getting a run down from the "how do you start" to "what finishes do you use." Wonderful questions, and honored to be a part of their tour. 
 

Grid Your Teeth

The RIT fashion show project has a grid theme, and I've put down hot melt glue on stiff paper about 42" x 30" to roll with black thickened dye a rubbing on the Marimekko linen fabric. Hope something good comes of this, and the design isn't a flub. The grid is nice. That's one good thing. 

More to Graph At

Yes, a big 40 inch screen has the grid pattern I needed for printing this hunk of fabric. I'll add this to the ones for the fashion show, and meanwhile keep exploring that grid. Haven't seen gridlock just yet!
 

More Grid Please

 I used a screen with a rigid and clear pattern, but wanted to take some of that machine-like quality away, so I printed to the table, pulled some lines -- in a grid, too -- through the squares. Here I am brushing the back of the fabric before pulling the print. I love monoprinting for that reason: I can alter it with drawing.

 

Test Pattern

For the fashion project I've started I will print linen that I've had for a while. A perfect use for it. After soda soaking, I've tried my grid pattern by rubbing, as well as screening and scraping color. I like the back side of this Marimekko print so I'll try it on a larger piece. 
 

Grids

Some grids are obvious, some not. This pegboard for carafes struck me as both random (color, placement) and rigid (pegs spaces out in a common grid) so that the happenstance left me pleased. Note that this is a righthanded cleaner-upper. 
 

Grid Work

A well known architect, though one who's name I can't connect to the thought, said that window grids separated the view into distinct sections, each with their own composition. This struck me as I walked to the Rochester airport's ramp parking lot. Must have been those grids.