FMP Developing Print onto Knit

After printing onto knit the first time it wasn’t as successful as I was hoping. I wanted to experiment further by trying to printing onto a lighter such as white to see whether the pigment of the colours on the print would be more successful then the last ones. the yarn I used was Baby Merino which is 100% wool. I was worried by it being 100% wool as I found after testing other fabrics, that print works better on sythetic fabrics. However, after printing on with the paint pattern in pink it came out really well more then what I was expecting. IMG_9546

Even the lighter colours such as the yellow has shown through clearly. I then wanted to test other prints such ones with pictures of people to see how clear the face and the body would come out on the knit. The face of my nan came out really clear and you can tell that its an image of my nan, however, I tried another pattern using my nan’s face but using brighter colours which was not successful. The facial features are not clear from where the colours are to bright and take over the detail of the face, having the print on photoshop the features where visible. To develop this I could use a lighter colour or change the opacity so that the colour is still there but with just lighter on the face so that you can see the facial features.

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