Ideas of creating more textural surfaces lead to some initial investigations with foiling and flocking techniques today.
Unfortunatley, the flocking would not take to the silicone surfaces. This is a shame as I feel that the soft, textile quality of the flocking would be an unusual and interesting contrast against the synthetic, rubberised texture of the silicone.
Ideas to apply flocking to a PVA surface could involve: exposing a screen with a 'negative' of the intended flocking pattern, printing the negative onto a spare surface (paper/fabric... whatever), applying the flock to this surface - this would remove the negative aspects of the apttern from the flock backing, apply the flock backing then to a surface of PVA glue - the positive elements of the pattern will then be applied to this PVA glue base as the negative aspects were previously removed fromt he backing in the initial print.
Unfortunatley, the flocking would not take to the silicone surfaces. This is a shame as I feel that the soft, textile quality of the flocking would be an unusual and interesting contrast against the synthetic, rubberised texture of the silicone.
Ideas to apply flocking to a PVA surface could involve: exposing a screen with a 'negative' of the intended flocking pattern, printing the negative onto a spare surface (paper/fabric... whatever), applying the flock to this surface - this would remove the negative aspects of the apttern from the flock backing, apply the flock backing then to a surface of PVA glue - the positive elements of the pattern will then be applied to this PVA glue base as the negative aspects were previously removed fromt he backing in the initial print.
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