Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Bonderweb Workshop

Today we learned about bonding non-synthetic fabrics and materials together using a variety of methods, one of which was Bonderweb.
All requiring ironing, you would either place a cut out piece of Bonderweb, a piece of a fine web like material known as fuse fx or scatter a light amount of 'Super Mend' onto an area of the fabric and then place it between 2 sheets of grease proof paper and iron. This would make the glue melt from either the Bonderweb, fuse fx or Super Mend and leave the area stick enough for another piece of material to adhere to it.
For my piece I used a background of brown material, I painted a small square of Bonderweb blue which then made the glue blue when ironed, and attached the rest of the layers via Super Mend.
These methods when combined with the previous workshop's felt making could be used to make armour for my Thod Armature.

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