Today I FINALLY got round to printing on to some fabric, I managed to get my hands on some of the transfer paper you would usually use for t-shirt transfers, I opted to use calico as I wanted a fabric that was medium to heavy weight so that it could withstand the wear and tear of the reader looking through the magazine.
I was not that impressed with the results, I'm not sure whether it was the calico or the iron I was using but, the transfer bit didn't take very well to the calico and it took a lot of ironing for it to bond to the calico, the only sample that was completely successful was one with a print on it. I'm also not too keen on the plastic tacky feel that the transfer has (see sketchbook).
I also managed to get some samples of the fabrics that fabpad uses and think the wool or cotton satin would probably work best in the publication, particularly the wool, however it is one of the most expensive fabrics they sell at £11.49 a metre and that's before all of the additional charges for postage and set up to actually print the pages. Given the fact that I only wanted to do a couple of the pages in fabric, it is going to work out far too expensive to put into production, pushing the RRP of the publication up to about £40/45 an issue, which I think is way too expensive given that it's a quarterly publication.
Conclusion -
Something that would be good to maybe come back to as the status of the publication grew, but for the first initial issues to stick to using the three different paper stocks.
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