Mimaki

During my Print Technician internship I have thoroughly enjoyed advancing my existing technical skills. One of the most rewarding aspects of my internship has been becoming a competent operator of the Mimaki TX2. I have enjoyed learning how to operate the Mimaki, change its inks, fabric/paper, perform general mantainance and set up, and use RIP software to create layplans. Printing students work and helping them to achieve their goals and their digital design dreams has been a very rewarding experience, and today on the final day of my internship I have had the opportunity to use my beloved Mimaki again to print my own design for the first time since completing my degree.

I would like to thank all of the technical staff, textiles students and Design lecturers at The University of Derby for making my 13 week internship a delightful experience! I have enjoyed working with you all immensely!

Scarf Designs

Based on my studies of insects and spiders I began to create designs suitable for printing on the Mimaki. I plan for the designs to be printed as disperse and transered onto sheer fabrics to create scarves. Some of the designs feature Wasp mimicing insects such as moths and beetles, however my favourite design features a swarm of stag beetles.

Final Prints: Mimaki

Here are some of my final mimaki prints for the 'Rule Britannia' project. The digital prints were always intended to be a base fabric for my collection, with overprinting using a screen an intended feature to create a mixture between old and new (possibly an idea influenced by my essay on Tradition and Innovation). I also decided to leave some of my prints as purely digital designs.
Here are a selection of my favourite final prints, all are digital print with traditional screen printing and one also features free motion machine embroidery: