Sometimes you may receive a tear proof envelope in the mail that feels slightly slippery but with an interesting texture. This is called Tyvek. It is easily stitched, glued and painted with different mediums. It is strong, tear and water resistant with a fabric-like feel and can be used for making kites, stage backdrops, bags, clothing, table covers, embellishments ....... Fibre and Textile Artists the world over are having a lot of fun printing on it, sewing it then heating it until it bubbles, burning it for distortion, layering it with Angelina Fibres and creating dimension.
Image one - 3 kinds of Tyvek ranging from soft structure to paper structure, painted with water based paint red on one side, silver on reverse. We then used a long diagonal straight stitch, only on half of the painted area.
Image 2 - this image shows the stitching and one of the samples has started to distort. We used baking paper on both sides of sample, then a household iron. We tried holding it just above the baking paper but didn't show a result so we started to dab the iron onto the baking paper and then we saw some action.
Image 3 shows distortion on the 3 different weights of Tyvek. The one in the middle has been flipped over to show the reverse side effect as often the reverse side is more interesting.
Image 4 shows our finised work after using a heat gun (in addition to the iron)
Image 5 is plain white tyvek paper structure, overlaid with Angelina Fibres. Heat has been applied. As the Tyvek distorted, the fibres became embedded into the Tyvek crevices.
Sandra & Catherine.
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