Next week the plan is to create an image using photosensitive cloth. A textile artist that interests me — Hannah Lamb — uses this technique quite often. But aside from a home hobby kit with sheets of blue paper that react to sunlight I have never tried it.
Lamb will augment a cyanotype with hand stitching, which I have done quite a lot of previously. But in order to create a positive image on cloth, a negative has to be created. I have inverted two historic images using iPhoto software and printed them. Next I trace over the negative print using a permanent marker on a sheet of — wait for it — recycled butchers’ cellophane from a bunch of sausages bought at Mogerleys, Friars Vennel, Dumfries.
an inverted scan of ‘plate’
