Old Fashioned Way to Make Fabric From Paper
How to Rubberize Fabric and Newspaper?
Sounds bizarre – and it is!
If you haven't tried this technique, I challenge you to give information technology a whirl…the results are so cool , and can be used in countless ways.
The items rubberized for this demo were pretty simple: a few pages from an old medical textbook & some lightweight muslin printed on an ink-jet printer.
I wonder what yous'll rubberize?
Here's a uncomplicated collage that looks groovy printed onto fabric, fabricated with a selection of images from The Graphics Fairy–
Help yourself to a copy past clicking the image below:
Once rubberized, you can sew not just the fabric, simply the paper too! I'll be making journal covers and a little wallet with the book pages…adding the rubberized surface will create a waterproof and non-slip surface.
Today, I wanted to share the basic technique with y'all.
I didn't invent this method, but I've had a nail experimenting with information technology. Y'all might like it too, if y'all accept a well ventilated identify to work.
Yeah, it's yet another Smelly Thicketworks Project.
Hmm, maybe I should revise my methods…
Nah…if information technology means enduring pungent odors to go nifty results, I'll sacrifice my delicate sensibilities (within reason).
This one was definitely within reason.
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If yous determine to have my claiming, hither's a listing of the stuff you lot'll need:
- Wear quondam dress…you really don't want this stuff on your fancy new blouse
- A place to piece of work outside, or with maximum (open window, strong breeze) ventilation
- A protected work surface. (I apply a sheet of cream-core board, with a plastic garbage bag taped over the summit).
- Protective gloves (I use bluish nitrile gloves)
- A tube of Clear, 100% Silicone Caulk / caulking gun / pair of scissors to remove the tip of the caulk tube.
- Note: You may demand a length of stiff wire (call up coat hanger) in order to puncture the skin of the caulk before beingness able to pump information technology out of the tube.
- Masking tape
- An old credit carte du jour or similar for spreading the goo
- A choice of items you want to RUBBERIZE!
- Scissors
- A handy garbage receptacle, for disposing of your nasty, gooey gloves, etc.
How-to:
- Fix your protected work area, and place your items onto it, leaving a margin between each item.
- You may want to employ the tiniest bit of tape to fasten them lightly to the plastic garbage bag surface.
Note:Make sure yous have sufficient work infinite to set the caulk gun down without damaging your precious antiques.
3. Gear up your caulk/gun and slip on your gloves – you're ready for activeness!
4. Squeeze a generous line of caulk along the border of your first victim, and spread the disgusting goo over the surface with your carte du jour, squeegee style:
This stuff smells like strong vinegar as it cures, so be brave!
5. Do your best to spread a sparse, fifty-fifty glaze of silicone over the entire surface. Squeeze out more silicone equally necessary. Annotation: Don't forget to release the pressure from the caulk gun after each application, or you'll finish up cross and cursing .
6. Let the papers and fabric swatches to cure. (Mine but took about an hr on a warm, humid day). It doesn't hurt to permit several hours. Test by gently touching the surface with a blank fingertip. When it is no longer moist, you can motility on to the next stride.
7. Turn each detail over, and repeat the procedure on the other side.
8. Allow to cure.
9. Trim the excess silicone from the edges with pair of scissors:
Yay – You now have a stash of rubberized paper & fabric!
Make something fun with it.
I decided I wanted a little pouch to carry cool stuff in, so I just haphazardly cut 3 pieces of rubberized fabric into rectangles, added a liner of Rusted Fabric, and stitched information technology all together:
Now, my Grandmother taught me to sew together, and she did it right. She would not understand why anyone would deliberately leave frayed edges and uneven stitches…The grungy nature of this project would accept appalled her.
Lamentable, Grandma – a daughter's gotta do what makes her happy, and I dearest the funky and rustic vibe to this petty pouch.
What she would say well-nigh rusting fabric on purpose would no dubiety make my blood run cold!
Be that as it may, I couldn't exist happier with the grungy rust stains, frayed edges and wonky stitching.
It's perfect for property a horde of sweet little embossed tags:
(These were made with the Crawly Tim Holtz Texture Fades Embossing Folder: Damask and the Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Pirouette – sadly, discontinued)
It's waterproof, it's super piece of cake to grip, information technology's rusty.
It's crawly.
Then, there you lot have it – How to Rubberize Fabric & Paper.
I tin can't wait to make more little oddities that would scandalize Grandma .
How 'tour you?
Until side by side time…
Heather ♥
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