Digital Textile Printing
By Susan Carden
Contents:
List of Plates vii
List of Figures ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction 1
2 History of Printed Textiles 7
3 Technologies, Substrates and Dyes 23
4 The Process of Digital Textile Printing 35
5 Art and Design Practice 51
6 Essence of Digital Printing 71
7 Investigating Digital Textile Printing 81
8 Crossing Disciplines 93
9 Conclusions 111
Glossary 117
Bibliography 127
Index 141
PLATES:
Front cover: Digitally printed silk satin. Susan Carden. Digital textile print. 2013. Photograph by Louis Carden.
Plate 1 Multilayered digital print. Susan Carden. Multilayered digital print. 2013.
Photograph by Susan Carden.
Plate 2 Detail hand stencil. Marcos García-Diez. Hand stencil El Castillo. 2015. University of
the Basque Country. Photograph by Marcos García-Diez.
Plate 3 Bed curtain and valance of plate-printed cotton, printed and made by Nixon & Co,
Great Britain, 1770–1780. Bed curtain and valance. 2015. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Plate 4 Furnishing fabric with a design of fantastic flowers with pencilled blue. Furnishing
fabric. 2015. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Plate 5 Letterpress. Christopher Wakeling. Letterform 1. 2013. Photograph by Susan Carden.
Plate 6 Furnishing fabric of roller-printed cotton, Lancashire, 1831. Furnishing fabric. 2015.
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Plate 7 Digital image on silk. Susan Carden. Silkscreen print. 2010. Photograph by Susan Carden.
Plate 8 Generated digital image. Alex Russell. Cloth of Gold 1. © Alex Russell 2013.
Plate 9 Laser digital print. Kate Goldsworthy. Mono finishing-01. 2009. Photograph by Kate Goldsworthy.
Plate 10 Make-ready sample in full color subsequently divided into the cyan layer and the
magenta layer. Steve Rigley. 2007. Photograph by Steve Rigley.
Plate 11 Digital textile print. Steve Rigley. Sivakasi Textile Sample 1. 2007. Journal of Craft
Research 4 (2). Photograph by Steve Rigley.
Plate 12 Digital textile print. Steve Rigley. Sivakasi Textile Sample 2. 2007. Journal of Craft
Research 4 (2). Photograph by Steve Rigley.
Plate 13 Textile print. Robert Stewart. Macrahanish. (1954) Digitally reproduced 2003.
Plate 14 Textile print. Robert Stewart. Ardentinny. (1954–55). Digitally reproduced 2003.
Plate 15 Textile design pencil and watercolor on paper 29.2 × 20.9. Charles Rennie
Mackintosh. Stylized Chrysanthemums. © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. 2015.
Plate 16 Digital textile print. Helena Britt. Assembly. 2009. Photograph by Helena Britt and Elaine Bremner.
Plate 17 Digital textile print. Elaine Bremner. Awaken Collection. 2009. Photograph by
Helena Britt and Elaine Bremner.
Plate 18 Silkscreen-print. Susan Carden. Silk digital textile print. 2010. Photograph Susan Carden.
Plate 19 Illustration 22: Digital textile print on pleated silk. Susan Carden. Craft stitch
technique. 2010. Photograph Susan Carden.
Plate 20 Digital textile print on silk. Susan Carden. Craft technique 2. 2010. Photograph Susan Carden.
Plate 21 Silk digital print. Susan Carden. Digital ikat on silk dupion. 2013. Photograph Susan Carden.
Plate 22 3D printed teddy bear. Scott E. Hudson. 2014. Carnegie Mellon University.
Plate 23 Print head detail, Scott E. Hudson. 2014. Carnegie Mellon University.
Plate 24 Silk textile print. Susan Carden. Silk dupion digital print. 2010. Photograph Susan Carden.
Plate 25 Silk digital print. Susan Carden. Pleated resist image. 2011. Photograph Susan Carden.
Plate 26 Silk satin digital print. Susan Carden. Transfer and batik image. 2011. Photograph Susan Carden.
Plate 27 Silk satin digital print. Susan Carden. Batik transfer image. 2011. Photograph Susan Carden.
Plate 28 Stencil image on silk. Susan Carden. Stencil image on silk. 2011. Photograph Susan Carden.
Plate 29 Batik and transfer image on silk. Susan Carden. Batik and transfer image on silk.
- Photograph Susan Carden.
FIGURES:
1 Stages of digital textile printing. Susan Carden 2010. 35
2 3D digital print. Cathy Treadaway. Sennen. 2011. Photograph by Dirk Dahmer. 55
3 Laser digital print. Kate Goldsworthy. Laser line. 2013. Photograph by Kate Goldsworthy. 57
4 Laser digital print. Kate Goldsworthy. Mono finishing-02. 2009. Photograph by Kate Goldsworthy. 58
5 Feed head cut away. Scott E. Hudson 2014. Carnegie Mellon University. 67
6 Knowledge in digital textile printing. Susan Carden 2013. 74
7 Digital textile printing as research. Susan Carden 2012. 83
8 Post-consumer waste: paper to print on fabric. Susan Carden 2011. 91
9 Textile design and neighboring disciplines. Susan Carden 2011. 93
10 Visibility of digitally printed images on silk. Susan Carden 2012. 108
11 Development of a digital textile print. Susan Carden 2011. 110