Experimenting with Stamping on Fabric

Hi there, it’s Angela here!

I’ve been wanting to try stamping on fabric for a while now, but I have been unsure where to start, after reading somewhere that it was difficult to do with good results. I decided to have a little play around with the 3 main fabrics that I tend to use, and the 6 main types of ink pads that I would frequently use.

The fabrics that I used were:

Plain Cotton
Open Weave Muslin
Silk Habotai

The ink pads that I used were:

Brown Chalk Ink
Black Adirondak Dye Ink
Brilliance Ink
Mahogany Distress Ink
Purple Stazon
Green Fabrico

I stamped the same image onto each piece of fabric using each type of inkpad.

The Brown Chalk ink tended to blur on all 3 of the fabrics, and did not give a good clear impression.

The Black Adirondak Dye Ink gave a good impression on the Plain Cotton and on the Open Weave Muslin, the ink bled slightly into the surrounding fibres on the silk.

The Brilliance Ink gave a good impression on all 3 of the materials, but was very light in appearance.

Mahogany Distress Ink bled slightly into the material on the cotton and the silk, the muslin left a good impression.

Purple Stazon gave a good impression on all 3 of the fabrics, but did appear very dark on the cotton.

The Green Fabrico is designed to be used on fabric and does give a very good impression on all 3 of the materials.

Having done these experiments, I will certainly be including stamping into my fabric projects, and maybe experiment a little more!

Hope that this encourages you to try something different too!

~angela~

Comments

[Charlotte]

Angela this is SO useful! Thank you for sharing, am definately going to have a go at this now xxx

[Joy]

this is fabulous - will have to keep this as a reference xxxx

joy

[joanna]

That's great, Angela - I'm really pleasantly surprised at how clear some of the images are - makes me want to have a play right now!