This is the fantastic, but somewhat temperamental, fabric printer.
When Carter is working not every piece of silk he dyes becomes clothing. Before Carter designed clothing he was a textile artist. His work used to be in the media of wall hangings. Now, every once in a while, he creates something of such high quality that he feels that it can not be improved upon by using it in clothing. Carter refers to these beautiful museum quality pieces as treasure pieces. These pieces are never used in garments, and have been gathered and stored over the years.
This summer Carter purchased a fabric printer so that he could try a new media and expand his work even further. Carter has taken Photos of treasure pieces and either used them in their original form, or used Photoshop to make them even more powerful before printing them on to silk. After lots of work this project finally got off the ground last week. Here are a few early pieces of what is sure to be an amazing new process.
This kimono is made from a printed repeat of a beautiful mandalah that Carter dyed.
A close up of this beautiful piece.
A selection of a treasure piece was photographed and tiled to create this beautiful fabric.
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