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In these strange times it's important to focus on the positives. If you're at home you may have time to do some additional designing or crafting, for example. We hope you're safe and well. Here's a picture of a fun dog we designed to go onto a T shirt, in Colourist Super Black. 
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Here's a romantic fabric pic for all the mums out there. Printed with a selection of Colourist colours including Yellow, Aqua, Red, Black and Brown.  It's been an exciting year at Colourist with new customers, new shows on Hochanda and the opening of our new studio. Hopefully 2020 will see more new experiences and lots of new customers - and also plenty of interesting projects with our existing customers.
We hope you all have a happy Christmas break and look forward to working with you next year. With festive best wishes Everyone at Colourist
 And two days later Nick is doing shows on TV channel Hochanda again demonstrating the paints. We've been able to make a greater range of colours this time - 16 colours plus Colourist Thickener and Colourist Pre-Fixer. Tons of new ideas for using the paints will be featured and then you can order products direct from the show.There are many books published about textile design but fewer focusing on heat transfer printing specifically. Two we have found helpful are featured below. Although neither of them is new they are both available from Amazon.  Designing and Printing Textiles - June Fish Published by The Crowood Press Packed with creative ideas and with a particularly strong section on working from paper onto fabric.  Heat Transfer Techniques - Dawn Dupree
Published by A&C Black Lots of techniques explained and an excellent start point for experimenting withembossing, flocking and fusing.  It's easy to make your own unique ribbon designs using Colourist Heat Transfer Paints. White polyester ribbon makes the ideal base for your design. Just apply the paints to ordinary photcopying paper, let them dry then make the transfer using a domestic iron.
The ribbon in the picture was designed using Colourist Heat Transfer Paints in Lime, Violet and Aqua. It's the Christmas season again and as usual we've been busy getting out orders for everyone who needs their paint before the holidays. After 20 December we can't guarantee delieveries will arrive before Christmas so we will be closed from that date until Tuesday 2 January 2018.
We wish everyone a very happy Christmas and a colourful New Year. Attention everyone who loves working on silk, linen, cotton and other natural fibres. We have just launched our new Pre-fixer liquid which can be applied to any fabric made with natural fibres. Once dry the fabric can be printed using Colourist Heat Transfer Paints printed onto the treated fabric to achieve the same bright, colourfast results you see on synthetics. Heat transfer paints were originally developed for printing synthetics and they have become established as one of the leading printing products for achieving depth of colour. The method of designing on paper has become enormously popular with textile designers as they are able to hone their designs before printing the finished item. However designers who like to work on natural fibres have not, until now, been able to achieve the same finish on their work as those working on synthetics. The introduction of Pre-Fixer has changed all this. Colourist Pre-Fixer is easy to use. It is simply brushed or sprayed onto the surface of the chosen fabric and allowed to dry. Drying times vary according to the amount of liquid used but about an hour in most cases. The drying process can be speeded up using a heat gun or spreading the fabric on a radiator.  Just when everyone is a bit bored with dry January and the weather - which is the opposite - here's a nautical themed project to make you think of Spring.  Three more TV shows on Hochanda before Christmas. We're showing how to create the colourful lampshade below and also ideas for ribbon and wrapping. Have a fantastic Christmas and a very happy 2017.  |
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