Hi Rose, Thanks for your reply. Have you had good success yourself attempting to digitally print on various fabrics? Did you find that you were able to feed fabrics through a regular inkjet printer without encountering a lot of problems? I am hoping to undertake some tests with the cooperation our photo department but was thinking the job might need to be farmed out to a firm that actually had an inkjet printer specifically for textiles. It would be encouraging to find that need not be the case! Thank you for the Toronto suggestion. I will certainly follow up and talk with them. Regards, Holly Lundberg Conservator Chicago History Museum From: Textile Conservators [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Smart, Rose Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 8:03 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: FW: FW: Printing a pattern of silk fabric From: Susan Furneaux [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 2:25 PM To: Smart, Rose Subject: Re: FW: Printing a pattern of silk fabric You can print photos on fabric fairly easily with an inkjet printer. How it would translate would depend on the print etc. Depending on the amount and type of gold thread in the original, it could be stitched through the ground fabric. How big you could print would depend on the size of the printer you have (the biggest around here that I have found is 11" x 17"). The fabric would have to be pieced but if there is a busy print that should be too hard to do without being too noticible. There is a digital fabric printer at OCAD in Toronto that will do large format printing on a silk ground. They didn't do outside commission work last year when I asked but that may have changed. It would be a lot pricier than the inkjet for sure, but the colour would be more stable over a number of years. Hope this helps. On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Smart, Rose <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: Hey – any ideas for her? From: Textile Conservators [mailto:[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf Of Lundberg, Holly Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 2:07 PM To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Printing a pattern of silk fabric For an upcoming exhibit, our curator would like us to fashion a missing cloth belt for an evening gown. The gown is from the late 1930’s (c. 1938) and made from a lovely silk brocade in a floral pattern of metallic gold colored threads on a pale peach/pink ground. I would like to pursue the idea of photographing a portion of the fabric and printing the design on fabric. I would be interested in hearing others experiences with this process of others to replicate missing element of a costume. Of concern is the types of inks that would be good to use, or those to steer clear of. I imagine that I will need to farm of this process or some aspects of it. Many thanks in advance. Feels free to contact me on or off list. Holly. [cid:image001.jpg@01D194CA.7BD694A0] Holly Lundberg Conservator (312) 799-2069<tel:%28312%29%20799-2069> direct, (312) 799-2369<tel:%28312%29%20799-2369> fax [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Chicago History Museum 1601 North Clark Street Chicago, IL 60614-6038 http://www.chicagohistory.org<http://www.chicagohistory.org/> P Please consider the environment before printing this email. Subscribe to the Museum Blog<http://blog.chicagohistory.org/> Like us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/chicagohistory> Follow @ChicagoMuseum on Twitter<http://twitter.com/chicagomuseum> See Chicago History in Pictures on Tumblr<http://chicagohistorymuseum.tumblr.com/> Repin us on Pinterest<http://pinterest.com/chicagomuseum/> Watch us on YouTube<http://youtube.com/user/ChicagoHistoryMuseum> ________________________________ “This email and any attached files are intended for the sole use of the primary and copied addressee(s) and may contain privileged and/or confidential information. Any distribution, use or copying by any means of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please delete it immediately and notify the sender.” -- Susan Furneaux Black Hen Studio Conception Harbour, NL www.blackhenstudio.ca<http://www.blackhenstudio.ca> 709-690-8732 ________________________________ “This email and any attached files are intended for the sole use of the primary and copied addressee(s) and may contain privileged and/or confidential information. Any distribution, use or copying by any means of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this email in error, please delete it immediately and notify the sender.”