The wild coast of Bohemia

Well, with all the serious stuff now going on the dreamscanwork blog, I can play here a bit more. So here is one thing we've been working on for a while. It's an animal toile, based on an antique toile and Grandville's animals.

We've been having some trouble with printing it, firstly because it's large and secondly because I just feel that the fabric should have a bit of texture (why I'm not sure). We're going to try a good dupion, but not real silk as our printing method does not work on silk. Sounds simple, but after I don't know how many attempts to get what I have in mind (something really NICE and with some weight to it) I finally had to get it sent from a shop in London's Brick Lane that I used to visit quite regularly. At least I know that they know their fabrics.

The real thing shows quite a bit more detail - we worked at very high resolution - and will be printed in three variations:  indigo, black and dark plum on cream. All of which is very traditional. Then it all goes off to be made into cushions - I think combined with either taupe or black silk, don't you? Yummy and fun.