I once tried to screen-print a cup cake design on 10 little t-shirts to use as party favors for my two year old's birthday. It was hard: fumbly and messy, and not at all accurate. The design was the least of my problems, the mechanics of my little table top screen printer had me feeling as though I was doing it all wearing mittens. In short, it didn't really work. Whenever I see hand printed fabrics, I get a little weak in the knees. The Australian design house, Ink & Spindle is one of my favorites always. They consistently create beautiful, simple designs.
Ink & Spindle, is a boutique screen-printing studio run by three Melbourne textile designers – Lara Cameron, Bianca van Meeuwen and Tegan Rose. Beautiful, high quality, modern designs seemingly inspired by nature. The Birch Forest design might be my favorite: 
I love seeing this fabric made into wearable art. {And I'd love this simple, pencil skirt}
photo courtesy of Assemblage
adorable frocks...
Chocolate Pure Linen Tuesday Play Dress by kidacollective
Robin's Egg Pure Linen Tuesday Play Dress by kidacollectiveand then there's the gentle, "Blue Wren in Snow" print which...
would make beautiful drapes for a window against a tonal wall.
visit their shop here:: ink & spindle
first four photos: Marcel Lee of Bulb Studios
19 comments:
Ooh..I have some old silk screen frames that I never actually learned how to make work. This might be the fire under my butt!
these fabrics are beautiful!
I also wish I could screen print! When graphic tee shirts started selling for $100 a pop, my brother in law and I thought we could start a business...I don't think we got past buying the book, "how to screen print". I have a huge Marimiko screen print in my living room....love. These ladies from Oz sure are talented!
I would love to have that skirt! the birch forest is my favorite, too. I love screen printing - I'm off to see the shop! Thanks for the into!
xo Isa
These fabrics are wonderful--the color and the depth of the image--simple and perfect. Thanks.
beautiful. love it! i'm going to go check them out!
I have some of their rooftops fabric laying on my dresser that I need to make into curtains for my bedroom! Perhaps I will tackle this project this week. I'll take this post as a sign. ;)
Megan, these are beautiful! The next class for me would be screen printing ..... wonderful!
The birch trees are beautiful! What a great alternative to traditional stripes.
Gorgeous prints. I am definitely bookmarking the ink & spindle site. I loved seeing the process of the screening.
Actually, screen printing technology is now a lot more advanced, and easy to operate. Maybe that's also why custom t-shirts are also becoming a lot more common
Nicolette
http://www.furnitureanddesignideas.com/
Oh what sweet outfits. I love that fabric. What a process and it shows that a lot of work goes in to it.
I have also tried to screenprint many times before and have made only a mess.
These screen prints are gorgeous. And to think, I'd never heard of Ink & Spindle before! This made for the perfect introduction.
XX Kate "the NEO-trad"
P.S. Thank you as well for answering my question on The Skirted Roundtable this week. I was so pleased and touched to hear about each of your own design inspirations and mentors!
Thanks so much for the feature, Megan! It's always a bit of a surprise to us when we hear such wonderful things about our work :)
Cheers,
Teegs
Those are lovely fabrics!
Valerie
http://valerieaheck.blogspot.com/
really fantastic -- what an inspiration!
The birch forest pencil skirt is fabulous! I want one!
I remember learning to silk screen in my high school art class. I loved it so much that I thought I wanted to go into screen printing...never really went anywhere with that idea but I've also never forgotten it. Amazingly I saw my high school art teacher unexpectedly two weeks ago and we chatted about that class...amazing how certain things bring us back...like this post. Thanks!
Tricia - Avolli
Wow thank you so much for this lovely post!!!
God, I stumbled upon Lara Cameron's blog about a year ago and read the whole thing--backwards. Learning about how she basically went from crafting at home to opening up a legitimate textile print shop was really inspiring. I am a fan!
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