12-05-2011, 02:15 PM
Before locking thread
I know this might sound crazy, but I think there is still an active cottage industry here and abroad making dresses and sweaters from yarn with hand operated programmable knitting machines. Must be nearly 20 years ago, set one up for the ex. Now I don't know if this could work with finer materials but I suppose it could be done somehow. Seeing as how most of the time grille cloth is only needed in relatively small peices, let's ask the ladies just how nuts I am.
More nuts, how about silk screening suitable fabric with patterns. It wouldn't fool a museum curator, but might work.
Very old school, but there once was cloth with photo emulsion that you could use like enlarging paper in the wet darkroom. It was black and white, and I reckon a color version would be a real pain to engineer. Not going to fly.
Lastly, a sheet of fabric mounted on paper and sent through an ink jet printer?
OK enough, back to work.
I know this might sound crazy, but I think there is still an active cottage industry here and abroad making dresses and sweaters from yarn with hand operated programmable knitting machines. Must be nearly 20 years ago, set one up for the ex. Now I don't know if this could work with finer materials but I suppose it could be done somehow. Seeing as how most of the time grille cloth is only needed in relatively small peices, let's ask the ladies just how nuts I am.
More nuts, how about silk screening suitable fabric with patterns. It wouldn't fool a museum curator, but might work.
Very old school, but there once was cloth with photo emulsion that you could use like enlarging paper in the wet darkroom. It was black and white, and I reckon a color version would be a real pain to engineer. Not going to fly.
Lastly, a sheet of fabric mounted on paper and sent through an ink jet printer?
OK enough, back to work.
