May 29, 2010

Fabric design: Place mat and napkins

In my opinion place mats look always more stylish when complemented with matching napkins. Therefore I spent time practicing sewing neat seams on my vintage sewing machine and started hand dyeing and painting / stamp decorating napkins and place mats together. The stamps for 
Water Lilies were cut in hard linoleum which creates a less opaque, painterly print.

Cotton canvas, cotton twill, 
Procyon fabric dye, Setacolor fabric paint. 1998.
Sizes: place mat 40 x 30 cm, napkin: 45 x 45 cm

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