First day at work at my new screen printing job!!

Smashed it on my first day screen printing at Couch. 

Spent the day printing tees on a five-arm carousel using plastisol ink.

Cant wait to start again tomorrow! 

'Soweto Street Style' Wood Heat Transfer Sample

'La SAPE' Wood Print

"A Congolese Sapeur is a happy man even if he does not eat, because wearing proper clothes feeds the soul and gives pleasure to the body."


This Sapeur is a screen print on wood with an ink wash over.

Another Plastic Bowl

New Eldon Bacongo Tee

The Sapeurs today belong to 'La SAPE' - La Societe des Ambianceurs et de Personnes Elegantes (aka Kitendi, the religion of cloth) - one of the world's most exclusive clubs in Congo Republic. Members have their own code of honour, codes of professional conduct and strict notions of morality. 

Tee's available for just £15, to order just leave a comment or send me a message through my contact page. 

Various colour ways and sizes available :)

Introduction to Embellishing

Today was the first day of my MA in Design for Fashion & Textiles at Bath Spa University and to start it off we had a day of being inducted on the Embellishing machine. This was the my first embellishing experience so I was very interested to see what it was all about. I took influence from the tacky 90's seat patterns you see on buses and coaches.

As sickly as I think they are I love looking at the patterns on seats every time I get on a bus!

So today I decided to try create my own style of coach seat fabric using the embellishing machine and a range of colourful fabrics from wools and felts to chiffons and mesh.

 First I thought I would go for the more garish design, layering lots of colours and shapes on to a dull grey background. I put some mesh over the top of it all the other layers of fabric which gave a really distressed, broken effect which I will definitely take in to account when experimenting with embellishment in the future.

I went for more of a subtle design for my second sample, this time layering the coloured stripds of mixed fabric between two lengths of grey woolen fabric and putting it through the embellishing machine very slowly which gave the fabric a cord like effect. This brought the colour through the grey in strips in accordance to the cord which gave a really nice effect.