Friday 11 March 2011

Fabric Laser Cutting


This green cut, onto cotton matt velvet fabric also has me sat on the fence. The laser cutter cut right through and the heat didnt fuse any of it together and so certain areas began to fall out. I think it worked quite effectively but after a few minutes of handling it the material began to fall apart even more. It has a "dark" feeling about it and the colour does too, but the falling out areas have gone too extreme and almost ruined it.
The brown material was an attempt to line up both a lino print and a laser cut to see how my idea was going to look. The laser cutter is difficult to line up, it begins a cut from the bottom left corner of the surface its cutting, which is why both techniques arn't in line, but i think it would be a better idea to laser cut first and line the lino print up by hand where i can control it more. I definately dont think this fabric; both material and the print colour, work wel for this design and the cut is too subtle to the point it's almost unnoticeable.

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