Gelli Printing onto Printed Fabric

Use your gelli plate to print over a patterned fabric. Learn the basics of designing and stencilling a pattern. This video includes tips on making stencils, deciding on a design and special printing techniques to get your best prints.
Chapters
00.00 Introduction
01:33 Designing for your fabric
04:29 Making stencils
08:51 Printing with your stencils
16:29 Summary
Materials used in this video are:
Pebeo Setacolor Fabric Paint - Opaque Silver Shimmer
Chromacryl Acrylic Textile Medium
Liquitex Basics Acrylic paint - Cadmium Deep Red Hue

[@rosalyntoop665]

Another way to pick up a good print is to let the stencilled paint dry on the gel plate then brayer over the plate with undiluted fabric medium. Then lay the fabric on top, press down with a baren and let the fabric dry. Admittedly I have not tried this on commercially printed fabric however it does work on (cotton sateen) fabric, on which I already have printed multiple layers. This allows me to pick up whatever is on the gel plate without adding another layer of colour to the plate. Have heat set the fabric (Easy Press 205 degrees 30 seconds each side) and all layers are retained when washed in warm/hot soapy water. I use screen printing ink (Speedball, Versatex, Permaset) rather than paint as I think it leaves a softer hand.

[@leonieandrewsart4137]

Yes, using fabric medium or gel medium works very well too. I haven't used Permaset for many years as I didn't like the smell when it was heat set. Although that did improve when they re-formulated it

[@hartmanartsource]

Wouldn’t it be easier to use a pencil on the back of the pattern to transfer it to the potential stencil?

[@leonieandrewsart4137]

That's certainly another way of doing this, but a pencil transfer probably won't show up on the glossy covers.