So today we will be printing on tea towels, you can basic, basically printing any kind of fabric that you want. But the reason I like cotton is because it's a very porous surface. And it's really easy and friendly to print with. You can just go to the web and find any napkin distributor. And then just make sure that they're 100% cotton and that you get to to do some ironing before you start the process. One important thing to keep in mind is that the tea towel is your campus.
So just make sure you plan where you want to have your design. reproduced, it can be in different areas and you can also choose tea towels that have some design on it and then we'll embellish the tower more. So for best results, you want to choose From your imagination or from patterns that are already drawn, things that are really bold, when you have like fine lines or like very intricate design, it's not really easy to carve into into the block, because one of the things that you have to keep in mind is that the image will have a negative and a positive state. So, the the positive will be the place where the ink will be will be placed and the negative will be the background. So you want to keep your designs like simple and bold. You can have like inspiration from like, patterns like design patterns or fabric patterns but everything that you can think of can have like some rhythm or also you can, you can play with different shapes at the same time.
One thing to keep in mind is your color palette. Your color pallet can come directly from the cans themselves, or you can also mix and create your own colors. These are some considerations that are it's good to have before you, you start you start painting. So the next step is to transfer your design into the EC code block. For that you will need to transfer paper. These transfer paper works pretty much as carbon paper.
So what I'm going to do is quite a small piece that covers my design up you will pay down the transfer paper and sandwiching into the design. Then with a ballpoint pen you will smoothly start tracing the Outline, you can lift it a little bit to make sure it's transferring. And just gently go around covering your whole design. Make sure to not apply too much pressure because otherwise you will have a lot of carbon in your block. So this is basically what you can do for a symmetrical design. So you're really not caring so much about the mirror image pretty much you will have whatever it is when you stop it.
And if you were to do letters, what you need to do is place them backwards so that they the right reading shows once it's printed