Tele e Stampe Romagnole - Stamperia Braghittoni

Handmade Prints Romagna region

The cutting of the fabric

The work begins by cutting the canvas with the use of traditional tailor's scissors, trying to follow the thread of the fabric and its natural decline, which is chosen on the basis of quality ... Once you have trimmed the fabric to mahe it is perfectly straight, you is to stitch and squaring for the positioning of the mold, calculating the size of the block and the piece to be printed ...

The preparation of the color

For printing must be spread, with a brush, the color on a screen that rests on water surface, to ensure that this tampon when the mold that forms the wave run up around the block so attacking the color in uniformly.

The printing

Setting up the mold on the squared canvas , with one hand while holding it firmly with the other one begins to beat, repeatedly using the "hammer" (a sort of bribe usually mushroom-shaped and can weigh 3 kg), this to ensure that the color not only adhere to the fabric, but especially that penetrate well enough to pass through, characteristic of hand-printed fabrics, original ...

The operation is repeated as many times as the size of the canvas to print, then stretches out on a long cane to dry.

The bath in the fixing acid

The bath of "toning / fixing" of the color is the most magical part of the work, in fact, when the printed canvas touches the water, which was dissolved a particular solvent, transforms and the press changes color and becomes, for example, from yellow to the typical blue ...

The washing

After a few minutes, the fabric is removed from the tank and put in the washing machine to rinse well for remove the excess of color, then is hang out to dry.

The drying

The ironing

The last step is the ironing of the printed canvas. The printed canvas is passes several times in the mangle taking care to pull well to each passage.

The final product