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eyyy i made the exact same mistake

Gave wood block printing a try. Then my girlfriend reminded me that I needed to reverse the image if I wanted to make prints with it so I carved a whole nother block! Ain't too bad for my first (and second) time!

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Made this shirt for pride, hopefully I pull some beautiful women /j

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Thoughts on my #wip? 🔪🌱 Should I carve a few more details or leave it alone? Is it legible to you?

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some linocut printed textiles 💫

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do it scared!!!

Hey so I made extras of the patch from my own battle jacket if anyone wants one?

Available cleanly lettered or extra messy

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Designed these patches while I was going through some stuff to remind myself the importance of softness and kindness, even if others might view it as a weakness, or attempt to take advantage of it.

They are available if anyone else wants a similar reminder about being soft and kind 😊

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A nice outfit is all about accessorizing. Just ask yourself "which collar matches with these clothes"

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Rules of DIY:

if it's a skill, there's rules you can learn

if it's an art, rules are not your concern

make it fucked up or you won't make it

if it's already broken, you can't break it

anything can be fixed with gorilla glue

except for pleather, and also you

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patches i made last night, fresh out the printing press of my arm. anarchy autism and puppy girl with her bone!

these felt so easy to do after my last patches were only back patches that took 20 minutes to roll and press down. compared to the less than five minute work time of the autism patches. the puppy girl one takes longer because its made up of 4 separate stamps (to save lino and allow new designs, but it does slow me down).

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via request upon mention heres my divine machinery pants !!!!! i designed and painted them and added the wire detailing by using old hoodie strings and shoelaces (some painted as well) :]

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DIY punk/alt/fashion tip: if you ever see a big-ass belt like this in a thrift shop, take it. Doesn't matter if it's not your style, doesn't fit you, if it's broken, or fake leather, doesn't matter. Just take it. Because you're gonna take that thing home and take it apart for the studs. The rest of it is irrelevant. Because I bought this belt for two euros.

...making this two euros' worth of studs.

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Ooh this is so in-depth! how well do you find you can mix the colours you need from the inks you have?

I'm terrible with a pencil so i use 3d-printed stamps that I design in Inkscape and OpenSCAD. The stamps work so much better than I ever expected

Question...how do you make your patches? They seem so fuckin cool. I'm working on a vest and a jacket atm, and I'd like for them to be done by the time a pride fest rolls around next month.

Main technique I use for making patches nowadays is linocut. Its best suited for mass production of patches.

Make sure to remember your carving the mirror image so you have to flip all the text. Using tracing paper to flip the design is a good trick, as well as leaving graphite marks on side, then pressing that to the lino to leave the marks in the same spot. Another trick with pencil is to view what ur carving in negative space quickly, put a paper over your design and shade over it with pencil, darker marks will be where you haven't carved yet.

I use speedball fabric ink, it takes 1 week to set then will be fine to be washed. I have magenta, violet, turqouise, and white. They have a limited range of fabric colors at the store. I have seen gold and silver fabric paint for sale and I will investigate it one day.

I use a speedball roller, i find the smaller one to be better than the big one as I can be more precise and waste less ink.

I got a fancy handle for $40 but the screws fallen out so its broken now so just get some heavy books. I used to use a mug. Whats important is pushing your whole body weight into it.

I got a speedball carving tool with different heads I can swap out so I can cut into the lino at different deepness and widths. The heads are stored inside the tool since its hollow and has a screwable removable bottom. I use linocut or dollar store erasers for my carvings. Make sure to wash the ink off your linocuts after your done using them.

A thing to increase the lifespan of you're linocuts is to use wood glue, some cork or wood pieces, and glued the lino stamps onto them. I dont do that yet so my stamps fall appart from overuse sometime and because I cut way too deep into the lino since I hate chatter.

Chatter is the term for in linocutting when theres little messy lines and stuff. It makes the art more recognisably to be linocut. My work is very clean with no chatter which is why people don't notice its linocut usually. This is a stylistic choice, with diy styles having a lot of chatter can look really cool so experiment with leaving bits of extra uncarvered lino sticking out in ur stamp. I need to experiment and buy some more lino.

You can also use multiple linocut stamps together to make a patch. Some patches ive made have like 8 different stamps. Ive made a dog nonsense patch where each letter was their own eraser stamp. You can also use different colors between the different lino stamps on the same patch to add more color. An effect I like to do is first stamp it in color, then the next day I stamp it in white over the same spot but shifted to the right and down slightly. It makes the text have a cool border 3D effect I love doing.

If making a more detailed picture with colors, i reccomend hand painting patches. I use white fabric paint mixed with acrylics for color to get all the shades i need. Acrylic paint mixed with fabric softener works too.

If doing words and you dont want a unique font reccomend using letter stamps. If you want a unique font for that i recommend hand paint for individual or linocut for mass produce.

The positive of letter stamps is the font is neat and can be done quickly. I know from lending them to my roommate that they are very helpful if you have dyslexia and have trouble getting letters right.

A visual effect of the letter stamps is that have a nice boxy edge effect, its an imperfection that adds a personally touch to it. I have both lower and upper case stamps that I got from michaels. You can use a hair band or elastic to hold a bunch of letter stamps together to make a word stamp.

You can use other stamps than letters that you find at craft stores for example my racoon print is a craftstore stamp.

You can also find big plastic letter stencils at the dollar store that you can use to do lettering by filling in gaps with a sponge or or paintbrush. They make special paintbrushes just for using stencils.

You can also get plastic stencils in the shapes of things, i got some for children and use a horse stencil for my horse smoking weed patch. Easier than drawing a horse myself.

Another technique I use for more unique clean patches is gel plating. I haven't tried printing laserprint images with it as ive seen online a lot but I will try one day. What i personally do is use it to make imprints with chains and physical objects.

Another thing i use with gelplates are any stamps or linocuts that dont have words, or words ones that i fucked up with and forgot to mirror when carving. It flips mirror image twice with the gel plate so it goes back to being right again on the patch.

Another patch making technique is using foamboard cut into shapes glued onto cardboard. This is good for a quick test of a design and is very cheap to make. It will not hold under water so is more difficult to clean.

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new shirt to celebrate german masochists who love getting railed

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here, a collar for when you need to train a puppy :3

all metal hardware and an NFC chip integrated behind the logo. Took a while to put this together but sooo worth it

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here, a collar for when you need to train a puppy :3

all metal hardware and an NFC chip integrated behind the logo. Took a while to put this together but sooo worth it

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My friend got a 3d printer and he made me a darning loom! And my phone can make gifs!