Stamp collecting...

Over the last few weeks the Inspiration to Stitch students have been busy printing and colouring fabrics using a variety of techniques.  One of our favourite resist techniques at InStitches is flour paste, especially when combined with our best printing tool the humble potato masher!  Students are always surprised at the exciting marks made by the most domestic of tools.

Here's a round up of some of the tools and the resulting marks made using flour resist...

An everyday potato masher.

A scalp brush from the pound shop, twisted or stamped it makes a great mark.

Grandma's plastic doilies.  Tricky to find these days but cake decorating ones work well too.

Or try the local cheap household shops, this is a plastic table runner! 

Children's aisles in the supermarket provide rich pickings such as paint dabblers and bubble wands- thickened procion dye.

Whilst the DIY department has grout spreaders, dabbed or scraped the resulting mark is really interesting.

And even the pet department can suprise - okay, I own up, I actually got this horse stirrup from the charity shop ( yes really! I got it free because they only had the one....). Here Terry is using it to print with thickened procio dye.

And this rather alarming print tool is a cheapie foam hair curler used by Gill! 

If you've used something strange to give an interesting print mark do send us a photograph of it and the resulting print!