Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Paint With Light & Shadow”.
We have a whole world of creative tools at our fingertips, but so few ways to express them out in the real world screen printing is a messy hassle and ordering designs through online websites takes you out of the creative process. The inco die kit from lumi available. In the maker shed puts creativity within arm’s reach, all you need is access to sunlight and a washing machine. Lumi inca dye works using uv reactive ink when you saturate fabric with the ink and leave it out in direct sunlight. The fabric will be permanently dyed. However, any part of the fabric that was protected from the sun won’t be changed.
We’Ll use this to create our design. The lumi ink dye kit contains three main elements: the uv reactive ink, the ink roller and the wash you’ll use to remove any excess ink. When you’re done start by making your design, if you have access to a laser printer and transparency sheets, you can take any logo any type or any photo and print it on a fabric. If you don’t have access to these tools, you can send your photos to lumi through their iphone app and they’ll. Send you the negatives to use for your prints or you can use tools, leaves or anything else that will block sunlight, get creative.
Once you have your design in mind, it’s time to prepare your fabric with the ink it’s best to apply the ink in the design in a darkened room. The hat we’re making has an odd shape, so it helps to use something to help the hat keep its form. You can use old t-shirts to do this or you can use a styrofoam mannequin head, remove the cap from the inkadie bottle and screw on the ink roller roll. The ink onto the fabric making sure that all parts are evenly saturated next fix your design under the fabric, using tape or pins, make sure that the design is as close to the fabric as possible. The closer it is the sharper.
Your image will be place. Your design out into direct sunlight for 20 minutes the uv rays from the sun will activate the exposed areas of the ink and set in the dye once the time is up, bring your items in and put them straight into the wash using the supplied detergent use. Three cap fulls for a medium load using a hot wash cycle and a cold rinse. The wash cycle helps set in the color of the exposed, ink and washes away any of the unexposed areas. So they won’t change color as soon as you bring them out into the sun again now you have a great design, that’s yours and yours alone.
How will you use lumi, inca dye? Let us know in the comments below thanks for watching you .