Needlewomen often have the question of how to transfer a drawing from paper to fabric with maximum efficiency and preserving important details. Drawing the contours of the image will be required for embroidery - manual or machine. There are many ways to transfer an image to matter, it is worth considering them in more detail.
Required materials and preparation
Depending on the methods by which the drawing is supposed to be translated, different devices and additional materials may be required. Here is an example list:
- carbon paper or tracing paper;
- thin cloth;
- simple pencil, chalk;
- needle;
- transfer pencil;
- pins;
- iron;
- lamp;
- glass;
- Printer;
- fabric and pattern.
As a preparation, you should print the image. You can make a drawing in any program on a computer that performs graphic images and prints them. If the pictures are small, they are printed on one sheet.
All borders should be clear, bold, clearly visible - this will make it easier to transfer the pattern to the fabric. You can even artificially increase the contrast and saturation of the lines, if possible, remove light details from the picture.
Transferring a drawing to matter
Below are the main methods by which the image is transferred to the base.
Copy paper
The easiest way to translate a picture is based on the use of carbon paper. It is produced in different colors:
- black;
- white;
- color.
It is necessary to select the color of carbon paper, taking into account the shade of matter. It is easier to find dark paper on sale, white paper is rare. To translate the drawing, a carbon paper is placed, on top - a printed blank. With a simple pencil outline the drawing, carefully pressing the contours. You can prick the contours of the pattern with a needle - colored dots will remain on the fabric, copying the pattern.
A clear result cannot be achieved if the details of the picture are small: they turn out to be blurry. The technique is suitable only for smooth matter or burlap. On a fleecy, fluffy fabric, the image will remain fuzzy.
The disadvantages of the method include the high "staining" ability of carbon paper - usually ugly marks are visible on the fabric.
Cigarette paper
Tracing paper or tissue paper helps to transfer the design to the fabric without carbon paper. The method is used for thick fabrics - velvet, velor, shiny bases.
First you need to transfer the drawing to tissue paper. Then the paper matrix is placed on top of the fabric, fixed with safety pins (you can take stationery clips instead). Then, the pattern is stitched right along the tracing paper with neat stitches, the paper is torn off so as not to damage the threads. The embroidered pattern is ready.
Dressing
The method of creating a decal is suitable for all types of fabric - linen, cotton, silk, with a smooth surface or with a pile. There is no difference in the shade of the fabric - the base can be dark, light. With the help of the method, it is possible to translate the picture simultaneously into several pieces of matter.
The order of work is as follows:
- Prepare a matrix. To do this, you need a board, which should be covered with felt and put the required number of sheets of tracing paper. Their maximum number is 6.
- Pin a drawing to the top tracing paper. Poke holes in the pattern with a needle as often as possible. The needle should be thick, and the gaps between the holes should be equal. To work comfortably, a sewing needle reverse side stick into a pencil, leaving a sharp tip. Holding a pencil is much more comfortable than a regular needle.
- Separate the matrices, lay them out one by one (fabric plus tracing paper), chop off with pins. Wipe each matrix from the side of the tracing paper with a solution of blue, kerosene, tooth powder. The solution will leave an imprint of the pattern on the matter through the holes.
- Dry the fabric for an hour, before removing the tracing paper. You can not throw away the matrix, but brush off the remnants of the solution from it and save it.
- The outline of the picture that appears should be immediately drawn or stitched with a thread.
The solution for light and dark fabrics is prepared differently. In the first case, 100 g of purified kerosene, 10 g of blue, 2 g of tooth powder are mixed. For the second recipe, 100 g of kerosene, 10 g of powder without blue are combined. Mix the product in a ceramic bowl.
Instead of tooth powder for dark fabrics, you can take chalk, for light ones - activated charcoal. Some needlewomen simply sprinkle light materials with blue without the use of kerosene.
Transparent fabric
On sale there are thin, transparent fabrics - interlining, voile, silk, veil, capron, georgette, organza. They can also be used to translate a picture if it is intended to make the main product out of them.
To work, you need to put a picture, fix the fabric with pins on top. The contours of the picture will be perfectly visible, so on the front side of the fabric you can immediately paint with acrylic paints without a rough sketch. Work is best done on a thick wooden board, plywood.
Laser printer
For this purpose, you will have to purchase paper for freezing (freezer, freezer paper). It is usually used for freezing food, but the material has long been adopted by needlewomen. On the one hand, the paper is smooth and easily ironed to the fabric, leaving prints on it. You should prepare the main fabric on which the drawing will be made (preferably linen, cotton).
Operating procedure:
- Cut out a sheet of paper for freezing, equal in size to A4.
- Iron the sheet with the shiny side to the fabric, iron all corners well so that the freezer does not come off.
- Trim the fabric along the edges of the sheet so that the threads do not stick out (they can ruin the printer).
- Put the workpiece in laser printer, making sure that the drawing will turn out on the right side.
- Send the image to print (the printer may fail at first, then the procedure should be repeated).
Important! Always apply a preview before printing an image.
Solvent
You will need to print the design on thick glossy paper so that the ink does not seep through it. Then attach the corners of the picture to the paper with needles, buttons. Prepare a cotton swab, wrap it with a cotton cloth, moisten it in a solvent. Saturate the paper that lies on the fabric with solvent.
To improve the result, attach the bottom of the spoon to the drawing, press well along the contour. The ink will bleed onto the fabric, which will produce the same image.
other methods
If there is no carbon paper at home, you can try to translate the picture on the window - through the glass. Using adhesive tape, fix the fabric and pattern, then circle with acrylic paints, a marker. A more "advanced" variation of the method is the use of a light tablet.
Some craftswomen trim the outline of the pattern through tracing paper on a sewing machine. This will require some skill and experience, otherwise the image will be uneven. The process is complex and laborious.
Another option is to use a pencil for translations. They transfer the mirrored pattern onto tracing paper, then apply it to the fabric, iron it with plenty of steam. Such pencils usually do not fall on synthetics, so you will only have to use linen or cotton fabrics.
An easy way to transfer a design is to use thermal transfer paper. It is bought in specialized online stores. The drawing is printed on the printer directly on such paper, then applied to the fabric, ironed with steam. The result will be much better if the printout is done in the workshop - the drawing will turn out juicy, it will not smear even after washing.
Resizing a picture
Sometimes you need to change the size of the picture for the fabric - make it larger or smaller. To do this, the image is divided into approximately equal squares, and on clean paper a grid is made of the same number of squares, but larger (smaller) in size. Then the drawing is transferred manually along the lines that are taken from each square.
The result is a picture with the desired parameters. It is best to break the drawing into many squares - so the finished drawing will turn out to be the most accurate. After it can be transferred to the fabric in any convenient way.
Guaranteed effect of transferring a printout image from a laser and inkjet printer to any hard surface. We put the decoupage card or photo on the file and cover the front side of the picture with a uniform layer of transfer transfer agent. We press it against a fabric or other surface, such as wood.
In general, it is easiest to glue the printout to the tree with varnish on the front side, wait 4 days until it dries completely, soak off the excess paper and varnish again:
CAN ESSENTIAL OIL TO IMPLEMENT IN THE FABRIC A PICTURE printed in a mirror image:
There are more ways Thermal transfer paper(very expensive), acetone or solvent (dirty it turns out), acrylic paints, and even fat removers, how it turned out for Lana Timofeeva http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/lana_timofeeva/post226597889/:
We apply the product to the printout, wait 5 minutes until the paper absorbs it.
And with a spoon we rub into the fabric until the pattern is driven in:
Clickable monochrome pictures:
The same method, where as a means of translation is used Fae And jet printer:
And here are some good old ways of translating a pattern for embroiderers:
- Through carbon paper for light fabrics take a dark "carbon paper", for dark - light (yellow, red).
Copy paper is placed on a well-ironed fabric with the “dirty” side down and a pattern is pinned on top with pins, trying not to move the “carbon paper” over the fabric so as not to stain it. Next, outline the drawing with a sharpened pencil (the fabric should lie on a hard surface).
- "Gunpowder" through a stencil, the pattern is transferred to a fabric of any color and texture, including velvet.
First prepare the stencil. A blank sheet of paper is placed on a soft bedding and a drawing is placed on it. Then, with an awl or a needle, the contour of the pattern is pierced every 2 mm. The stencil is ready, it remains to clean off the bulges from the punctures from it. To do this, it is enough to wipe the stencil with sandpaper from the side where the bulges are visible. Next, they mix machine oil or kerosene with toothpowder and get a mixture that looks like thick sour cream - this is for dark fabrics. For light - tooth powder is replaced with blue or soot. Now the stencil is applied to the fabric and carried over it with a cotton swab dipped in the mixture and well wrung out: through the punctures, the mixture enters the fabric, leaving marks-dots - an exact copy of the pattern.
- cellophane- for dark pile fabrics
First, the pattern is redrawn from paper onto cellophane (with a fountain pen) or tracing paper, then the pattern is applied to the fabric, fixed with pins and sewn along the contour on a sewing machine or stitched with a “forward needle” seam (basting). Then remove the pins and paper. The pattern is embroidered and, having finished the work, the basting is pulled out.
And finally, a lesson on implanting printouts in acrylic paint:
Choose, dare, experiment! Successful creativity, friends! @Milendia
Many owners of inkjet printers are not even aware that with the help of these devices you can print images to decorate various fabric products..
Printing images for transfer to fabric is perhaps one of the least known and rarely used features of printing devices. In this article, we will tell you how you can decorate your T-shirt, shirt or other fabric product with a unique pattern or original inscription. Using the methods described below, you can transfer the image to items made of cotton and blended fabrics that can withstand prolonged heat.
Equipment and materials:
A printer. To print an image that is then transferred to fabric, you can use a home inkjet printer or MFP. Since in this case high resolution is not required, not only modern, but also rather old models of inkjet printers, which have long been discontinued, will successfully cope with this task.
Iron or ironing press. To transfer the printed image to the fabric, it is best to use an ironing press - it will provide the most durable fixation of the pattern. If there is no press, you can use a regular iron. In the latter case, it is necessary to prepare a desktop with a flat and hard surface that is resistant to heat (an ironing board, unfortunately, will not work for this purpose). In the process of work, you will need a piece of clean matter.
Special media. To transfer the image to the fabric, special media are used - (thermal transfer paper for light fabrics) or (thermal transfer paper for dark fabrics). The structure of such media includes a dense paper base and a thin elastic layer that is attached to the fabric when heated - it is on its surface that the image is applied.
Image preparation and printing:
Preparation of an image or inscription can be performed in any program that supports the print output function. Several small images can be placed on one sheet, leaving 10-15 mm between their borders.
It should be borne in mind that printing on fabric has a number of features. A translated image may differ markedly from a print made on plain paper on the same printer, mainly due to lower contrast, narrower color gamuts, and poor reproduction of light tones. For optimal results (especially when printing photographs, reproductions, etc.), it makes sense to artificially increase the contrast and saturation of the image, and, if possible, exclude areas filled with the lightest shades from it.
Important point: in order for the image on the fabric to be read normally, it must be printed in a mirror image. To do this, activate the option to mirror the printed image (Flip or Mirror) in the printer driver window or in the print settings of the program from which the image is displayed. To check the correctness of the selected settings, it is best to use the preview mode.
Transferring an image to fabric with an iron
The image printed on the sheet must be cut out, leaving 5-6 mm of free space around the perimeter.
The iron regulator must be set to the position corresponding to the maximum power. If there is a steamer, it must be turned off. Before starting work, the iron must be kept for some time so that it warms up to the maximum temperature.
Because the temperature conditions different models of irons may differ, it makes sense to pre-select the optimal time for translation by experimenting with several small images and an unnecessary piece of fabric.
When the iron is ready to work, put it on the desktop surface in advance
The prepared piece of fabric and smooth it carefully so that there are no wrinkles or folds. Then lay the product onto which the pattern will be transferred onto the fabric. Prepare the surface for transferring the image by ironing it. Position the cutout print face down where you want it to be.
The sequence of actions when transferring a large format image to fabric using an iron:
For the best fixing of the image on the fabric, it is desirable to use the widest part of the working surface of the iron. When translating a large image, it is best to smooth the sheet in several passes, slowly moving the iron firmly pressed against the table along the long side of the image. The time of one pass should be about 30 s.
Turn the iron 180° and repeat the above procedure, starting at the opposite end. After that, it is necessary to carefully smooth the edges of the translated image by moving a tightly pressed iron along the perimeter of the image.
After completing the transfer procedure, let the product cool for one to two minutes, and then remove the paper base by taking it at any of the corners. It must be borne in mind that it will be much more difficult to remove the base from a completely cooled product.
When transferring several images to the same product, it is necessary to place them in such a way that they do not overlap each other.
Have you seen a T-shirt with an exclusive design or with their own photo printed directly on the fabric? Do you want to make something unusual for yourself, but do not know how such a sticker is made? For this, special thermal transfer paper is used. With your own hands at home, you can easily make an exclusive unique T-shirt, T-shirt, bag and other thing.
Materials and technology
If you have never worked in the field of design or manufacturing of souvenirs, but only saw T-shirts, T-shirts, pillows, mugs, plates and other products in the shop windows that are proposed to be made in an exclusive design, for example, with a photo of the future owner, check out brief description the essence of the manufacturing technology of such things.
For any transfer of the image to the object, an intermediate material is used. In this case, thermal transfer paper. With your own hands at home, you can easily apply any image to the fabric (white, dark, colored, natural or synthetic).
In order for the desired image to appear on this intermediate material, of course, it must first be created or found ready-made, and then printed. To perform the layout, template (the picture itself) use various graphic editors - computer programs designed to create and edit images. If you already know how to use Adobe Photoshop or a similar graphics package, you can assume that you have created an image.
The next step is printing. It is performed on the usual just on special sheets. Next, using an iron, the image is transferred to the prepared fabric. At home, you can only apply an image to flat things lying on a flat surface. Making a mug, of course, will not work. For them, special thermopresses with a cylindrical surface are used. Actually the job is easy.
DIY
If you are going to make many products, purchase packages with the appropriate number of sheets. In this case, the unit price will usually cost you less. If you just decide to try yourself as a designer and make original souvenirs for yourself or your friends for some holiday, buy a pack with a maximum of 10 sheets. If you find a company that offers sales by sheet, take the right amount, for example, a couple, by the way, it’s better with a margin (suddenly you print it wrong the first time). Be sure to ask for instructions for the paper and first specify for which fabric, light, dark, natural or synthetic, it is intended.
Working with light fabrics
If the thing you are going to decorate is white, any thermal transfer will do. You can easily make any image on this type of fabric with your own hands. The type of sheets that is intended directly for light fabrics is cheaper, but in this case the image will have to be printed as a mirror image.
Thermal transfer paper for dark fabrics
If your T-shirt is dark (blue, green) or, in general, black, then you need to buy sheets of the appropriate type. This is necessary for the best possible and high-quality results. If you print the image on a white fabric sheet, it will take on the tone of your T-shirt after transfer and the photo will not look natural.
For example, a4 sublimation thermal transfer paper for dark fabrics is suitable, however, it requires special sublimation inks that stick only to synthetic fabrics, and natural ones also require a special substrate.
Cheaper to do more budget option— sheets for inkjet printers for dark fabrics. In this case, the image will have a kind of white background, the color will not change and there will be no additional costs. It is desirable to leave a white border around the picture. This will give things a finished and beautiful look.
Now you know what thermal transfer paper is. With your own hands, you can easily make any image for a T-shirt or other fabric object right at home. Create exclusive things for yourself, friends and relatives.
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