There are several ways to apply a pattern to fabric.

Copying a drawing

This method can be used when working with thin and light-colored fabrics. Transfer the drawing onto tracing paper. Then place the fabric on tracing paper and trace the outline of the design with a marker. You can also transfer a design onto fabric using a copy roller.

Transferring a drawing using a chip

Place the tracing paper over the drawing and trace it with a ballpoint pen. Using an awl or pin, puncture holes along the entire contour of the design. Then place the design on the fabric and sprinkle it with chalk: for light-colored fabric, dark, and for dark fabric, white.

Transfer pencil

A sheet of tracing paper is placed on the drawing and traced with a transfer pencil. The fabric is placed on the tracing paper with the pattern and ironed. The design will transfer to the fabric. If your drawing turns out to be inaccurate, you can wash the fabric and repeat the operation again.

Please remember that each fabric requires a different iron temperature, so be sure to adjust the iron heat according to the fabric label. The pencil should be soft. For dark fabrics, use a light (white) pencil, and for light fabrics, use black or brown. When transferring the design onto the fabric, do not put too much pressure on the pencil.

Decorative accent, additional tools and accessories

To work, you will definitely need silk cords, beads, crystals, seed beads and other additional decorations. Beads can create a wonderful additional accent in many arrangements.

You may also need a special stiletto or awl to make holes in thick fabric. This will protect the tape from wear during operation.

To work, you will also need a special weaving needle. Unlike a tapestry needle, it has a flatter eye, and the tape does not twist when working. Many embroiderers use just such a needle.

Even the most ordinary straws used for drinking cocktails or sandwich forks can serve you well. If you put them under the ribbon when embroidering the next loop, then all the loops will be even and will have the same height.

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Additional materials - 2 | How to transfer a design onto black or fleecy fabric

There are many ways to translate a drawing. Sometimes the question arises - how to transfer a design to this or that fabric. Often in needlework it is necessary to transfer a design to velvet, plush or very dark fabrics. Today I’ll tell you how to transfer a design onto fabric, black, dark or fleecy.

Good afternoon, dear friends!

Recently I discovered that I did not tell in detail how to transfer a design to black fabric and, after thinking, I decided that it was very important for readers to give answers to specific questions. This is how this article was born.

We have already talked about ways to transfer a design onto fabric, if desired. Today I would like to focus on a more narrow task in this regard.

How and with what to transfer a design onto dark fabric or velvet

During class various types In needlework, the question often arises of how to transfer a design onto fabric, or more precisely, an image onto a very dark fabric. This can be done in various ways depending on the fabric and purpose of the pattern.

1 - Tracing the stencil along the contours

You can cut out the outlines you want to transfer from paper and simply trace them with chalk or a special tailor's white pencil. But this method is not suitable for thin and multi-layered patterns, as well as for dark leather and leatherette, since the pencil will not remain on such a smooth surface. And we need to accurately translate the image.

2 - Method suitable for almost any material

Another painstaking and time-consuming method that has come down to our time from time immemorial. He answers in detail the question of how to transfer a design onto fabric. It is suitable for use on any surface. To complete it, you will need a supply of free time, patience and a few things:

Prepare for work

1. Pencil tracing paper
2. Mica for packing bouquets or very dense transparent polyethylene. Mica is preferable, since polyethylene becomes cloudy over time.
3. White tooth powder or toothpaste (not gel).
4. Hard sponge or soft toothbrush, you can get by with a piece of fabric.
5. Awl.
6. Tailor's pins.

Attention: do not forget to work carefully with needles and pins, especially if you have children in the house. Always put them away after work in a pincushion or on a magnet. In general, when working with needles, always keep a magnet nearby.

My assistants are trying to sew and draw something... Just have time to turn your head and keep an eye on them. They love to sit next to each other. And this whole week I had two little girls of three and four years old at home. Just try telling them that they are bothering you... After all, they are all needlewomen, like mothers... Tomorrow I will take Varvara home, this is my youngest daughter.

What is a chip and how to make it to translate a drawing

To transfer the design onto the fabric, we need a pin.

Attention: a splinter is a drawing on tracing paper or paper for transferring to fabric or for weaving lace. Typically, such drawings or diagrams are printed on thin and transparent paper. But lacemakers usually glue a design on thin paper to thick cardboard.

This is necessary so that the design does not fray or tear during the long and painstaking work of creating the lace. On the lace pins, dots also indicate places for attaching the mace. To

• To begin work on making a pin, you must have a drawing that requires transfer to a dark fabric
• First, you should copy the drawing onto tracing paper in two copies. A second copy is needed as a safety net, since it can be difficult to make an exact copy the first time without spoiling the original. The drawing is neatly chipped along the edges with pencil tracing paper. The outlines of the drawing are transferred to tracing paper
• After translation, the tracing paper is removed from the sheet of paper

Making a pin intended for copying a design or pattern onto black or fleecy fabric

• For further work you need to chop paper with mica (tracing paper) or polyethylene
• Then, using an awl, holes are made along the contours of the pattern, passing through both layers. It is most convenient to do this on a medium-hard pillow or on a sofa, provided that the surface will not be damaged by punctures with an awl. Thus, we try to transfer the pattern from tracing paper to mica or polyethylene

• Having passed with an awl along all the contours and lines of the drawing, the tracing paper is separated from the mica

Add. materials -1. How to transfer a design to fabric

How to transfer a design onto fabric from a pin - combining the pin and fabric

Next we need to transfer the design onto the fabric. You can use only tracing paper to transfer the design if neither mica nor polyethylene is available. But the process in this case will be much more difficult, since the tracing paper can stretch due to moisture, distorting the applied contours, and break through in the process.

• To transfer a design onto a dark fabric, you need to dilute tooth powder or toothpaste to the state of liquid sour cream.

Attention: you can use water, but by adding shampoo or dishwashing detergent, the resulting composition will be easier to stir and apply, and its durability will also increase.

You should not dilute it too thinly, as blurry pale spots will appear on the fabric instead of a clear outline. Thickly diluted or undiluted toothpaste from a tube will require effort during application, which can move the chip from the fabric or tear it.

• Polyethylene or tracing paper is placed at the location of the design on a dark fabric, fixed with tailor’s pins

Attention: you need to make sure that the holes from the awl lie flat on the fabric. The side on which the edges of the holes came out when working with an awl will give uneven lines on the fabric

Now everything is ready to transfer the pattern and learn how to transfer the design to fabric.

Transferring a design to a dark or fleecy fabric

• When the fabric and the chip are combined, you need to go over the surface of the polyethylene with a sponge. It should be moistened with diluted toothpaste. Instead of a sponge, you can use a toothbrush or a highly absorbent cloth.

Attention: it is advisable not to go over the same place twice, especially when using tracing paper

• After lines of diluted toothpaste are drawn along all the lines of the chip, it is separated from the fabric. This allows you to correct toothpaste that has not yet dried, which sometimes runs or smudges.
• Once the drawing is completely dry, it can be removed. The pattern applied in this way can only be removed by washing. But some fabrics are not recommended to be washed.

This method of transferring a design is used when embroidering on dark velvet or plush. It can be used for transferring onto felt or fabrics that are undesirable to wash. Different toothpastes and powders give different results, some of them are removed quite quickly, and some retain the result for a very long time

Transferring the design to fabric

Before you start embroidering, finally decide on what design you will make, what fabric you will work on and what ribbons you will use to realize your design. If you want to simplify this task, purchase a ready-made embroidery kit from the store with a pre-printed design and detailed recommendations. Having embroidered the pattern, it can be additionally decorated with silk ribbons. It is convenient to use transfer designs for embroidery. They are printed on vellum paper (thick, glossy white paper) with special inks. To transfer such a design, just place it on the fabric with the side on which the pattern is printed and press. If you decide to develop a drawing yourself, you need to do this on a landscape sheet, clearly drawing the contours of all the details. Copies are made from the finished drawing onto transparent tracing paper, and from there the patterns are transferred to the fabric. When transferring the drawing, hold the pencil at an angle so that cuts do not form on the tracing paper.

If you need to enlarge or reduce the drawing, draw the pattern transferred onto tracing paper into equal squares. The smaller they are, the more accurate the embroidery pattern will be. Then take a blank sheet of paper and draw the same number of squares on it, decreasing or increasing their size. Transfer the lines of the corresponding original cells into the resulting cells.

There are several ways to transfer a design onto fabric.

Method 1. You can use a special transfer pencil. Place a sheet of tracing paper over the drawing and trace it with a transfer pencil. Then place the tracing paper on the fabric with the design facing down and iron it. When exposed to elevated temperatures, the design will be imprinted on the fabric.
When using this method of copying a pattern, do not forget that for each type of material there is a certain temperature threshold. Exceeding it can lead to yellowing of certain areas of the fabric. If you make a mistake when translating a drawing, wash the fabric in warm water and soap and repeat the copying procedure.

The inconvenience of this method is that you can translate a drawing drawn on tracing paper with a transfer pencil only once. If you need to change the size of the design or repeat it on the fabric to create a pattern, you will have to make new copies.

Method 2. You can transfer the design through carbon paper, and for light fabrics you will need dark paper, and for dark ones - light. This method in the best possible way Suitable for smooth fabrics. Place the tracing paper with the design on the fabric, make sure it is positioned correctly and pin it to the fabric, but only on one side. To avoid staining the fabric, use a cotton swab to remove excess ink from the copy sheet. Lift the loose edge of the tracing paper, place a copy sheet between it and the fabric, dye side down, and trace the outline of the design with a pencil.

Try not to press on the fabric or touch the paper with your hand in places where there is no design, otherwise unnecessary stains may remain on the fabric, despite the fact that you have previously removed the excess dye. After checking the accuracy of the image, carefully remove the tracing paper and carbon paper from the fabric.

Method 3. For very thin fabrics (organza, muslin, gauze), the technique of transferring the pattern “to light” is used. Apply the transparent material directly to the design, placing it on the backlit glass, and trace the outline of the design with a pencil.

Method 4. Due to their texture, some fabrics cannot be patterned using an iron or any other means. In this case, you can do the following. Remember the tracing paper with the design transferred onto it, then attach it to the fabric and start embroidering the pattern directly on it, using it as a basis for embroidery. After completing the work, simply tear off the tracing paper. The completed design will remain on the fabric. If the pattern seems unfinished to you, the empty spaces can be filled with some decorative elements, such as beads, or additionally embroidered flowers.

Method 5. Transferring the design using the dusting method is suitable for absolutely all types of fabric. Transfer the pattern onto tracing paper and place it on a soft floor. Take a thick needle and pierce holes along the entire contour of the pattern, placing them at a distance of 2 mm from each other. Remove the bulges of the punctures using sandpaper. Place the tracing paper with the design on it onto the fabric and secure it with pins. Then dust the holed pattern with chalk powder (light fabric with colored chalk, dark fabric with white). Now dip a cotton swab in chalk powder and, lightly pressing it onto the tracing paper, move it over the drawing so that the powder gets onto the fabric through the holes. Carefully remove the pins and remove the tracing paper from the fabric, being careful not to get any powder on it. If some detail of the pattern is printed poorly, draw on it with a simple pencil. If you don't plan to start embroidering right away, the design may fade from the fabric over time. To prevent this from happening, iron the design - this way it will last longer.

Method 6. On dark fabrics, you can use the technique of transferring the pattern by re-stitching. Apply the design to tracing paper or to transparent thin interlining material (non-woven fabric) and secure it to the fabric with pins. Fix the fabric together with the transfer material in a hoop and stitch along the entire contour of the pattern using a “forward needle” stitch. Make small stitches. You can also sew the outline on sewing machine. Once the stitching is complete, remove the tracing paper or interlining. The outline of the stitched pattern will remain on the fabric.

Guaranteed effect of transferring printout images from laser and inkjet printers to any hard surface. We place the decoupage card or photograph on the file and cover the front side of the picture with an even layer of transfer agent. Press it onto fabric or another surface, such as wood.

In general, the easiest way to apply varnish to wood is to glue the printout face down, wait 4 days until it dries completely, soak off the excess paper and varnish again:

CAN ESSENTIAL OIL IMPLATE A PICTURE printed in a mirror image INTO THE FABRIC:

There are other ways Thermal transfer paper(very expensive) acetone or solvent (it turns out a bit dirty), acrylic paints, and even grease removers, how it turned out for Lana Timofeeva http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/lana_timofeeva/post226597889/:

Apply the product to the printout and wait 5 minutes until the paper absorbs it.

And rub it into the fabric with a spoon until the design is embedded:

Clickable monochrome pictures:

This is the same method where Faeries And inkjet printer:

And here are some more good old ways of translating designs for embroiderers:

-Through a carbon copy For light fabric, use dark carbon paper; for dark fabric, use light carbon paper (yellow, red).

Place carbon paper on a well-ironed fabric with the “dirty” side down and pin the design on top, being careful not to move the “carbon paper” across the fabric so as not to stain it. Next, trace the drawing with a sharpened pencil (the fabric should lie on a hard surface).

- “Powder” Using a stencil, the design is transferred to fabric of any color and texture, including velvet.

First prepare the stencil. A blank sheet of paper is placed on a soft mat and a drawing is placed on it. Then, with an awl or needle, the outline of the design is pierced every 2 mm. The stencil is ready, all that remains is to clean off the bulges from the punctures. To do this, just wipe the stencil with sandpaper from the side where the bulges are visible. Next, mix machine oil or kerosene with tooth powder and get a mixture similar to thick sour cream - this is for dark fabrics. For light ones, tooth powder is replaced with blue or soot. Now the stencil is placed on the fabric and passed over it with a cotton swab dipped in the mixture and wrung out well: through the punctures, the mixture gets onto the fabric, leaving marks-dots - an exact copy of the design.

- Cellophane- for dark pile fabrics

First, the design is redrawn from paper onto cellophane (with a fountain pen) or tracing paper, then the design is applied to the fabric, secured with pins and sewn along the contour using a sewing machine or stitched with a “forward needle” seam (basting). Then remove the pins and paper. They embroider the pattern and, having finished the work, pull out the basting.

And finally, a lesson on implanting a printout in acrylic paint:

Choose, dare, experiment! Happy creativity, friends! @Milendia

Probably everyone who does embroidery has at least once wondered how to transfer a design from paper to fabric and do it quickly and accurately as much as possible. And very often it is quite difficult to find the answer to it. In fact, there are many methods and there is no one universal one. Any self-respecting needlewoman should know at least 2-3 methods. In this article you can find a description of each of them.

Materials and preparation

In order to better understand how this or that option works, it is necessary to implement it. It is absolutely not necessary to try everything at once; first, you can choose one or two you like. Here are the necessary items that may come in handy.

• Carbon paper;
• Ordinary chalk, as well as an ordinary pencil;
• Pins or stationery clips;
• Special transfer pencil;
• Needle;

Materials and preparation

• Tracing paper;
• Prepare a solution in advance (blue, kerosene, tooth powder);
• Scotch;
• Freezer;

Besides this. It wouldn't hurt to have embroidery skills. It is also recommended to prepare the desired picture in advance (print it on a printer or draw it by hand, it doesn’t matter) and the material to which you plan to transfer it.

Important! The illustration must be clear and neat. Otherwise, it may have a bad effect on the final result.

Translation methods

There are various methods translation:

Through carbon paper

This option is the most popular and easiest to implement. But that doesn’t make it any less effective. How can you transfer a design onto fabric using it? To do this, just attach a carbon copy to the item, and a picture on top. And then just start tracing it with an ordinary pencil or pricking it with a needle along the contour of the image. Then you can start embroidering (for example, cross stitch).

The downside is that it is impossible to make a very detailed drawing. It is also worth noting that carbon paper is accessible to every beginning needleworker and is sold in any office supply store.

Transfer via carbon paper

Important! You should not use this method on “fluffy” things. In addition, it is necessary to select paper to match their color.

Use of solvent

In this case, you need to print the mirrored image on a glossy sheet. Then apply it to the desired location and, using a cotton wool or sponge soaked in a solvent, begin to develop the design. For a clearer appearance, lightly press the contours with some third-party smooth object (a spoon works well). Do not forget that when using this option, an unpleasant odor may remain, which you will have to get rid of later.

Use of solvent

Important! Before starting work, you need to put on gloves.

By dusting

If we consider this method, then it is suitable for different colors and types of material (even denim). In addition, it can be used in several places at the same time.

Powdering

One of the disadvantages is that then, as in the previous method, you will need to eliminate the unpleasant odor. Translating this way is quite simple.

How to transfer a design from paper to fabric?

• You need to take a board covered with felt and apply the desired amount of tracing paper (maximum 6 sheets);
• Attach the picture to the top. Next, start piercing it with a needle along the contour. To make it more convenient, a needle is better reverse side stick it into a pencil.
• Apply each resulting sheet of tracing paper (they are also called matrices) to the required place and pin it with pins. Then wipe with some solution.
• Let the item dry for an hour.
• Start drawing the picture or stitching it with threads.

Translation using this method takes quite a long time. Some crafters simply use blue instead of a solution, this is also possible, but the development effect will be worse. To prepare the solution, you need to mix 2 g of tooth powder, 100 g of kerosene and 10 g of blue, or without blue, but use 10 g of powder.

Important! Mixing must be done in a ceramic bowl!

Stitching

It is advisable to use this option if the material used is cloth, shiny or velvet. Its positive quality is that it is ideal for cross stitch. In implementation everything looks very simple. You need to take the matrix (its production is described in the previous method) and pin it to the clothes. Then trim the sketch along the contour and finally get rid of the tracing paper.

Translation by stitching

Using non-woven fabric

We can say that this is the second version of the previous method, only in this case the mirrored pattern is applied to the non-woven fabric and stitched on the reverse side. The method is ideal for stretchy material.

Through tissue paper

The technique is applicable to velor, shiny material and velvet, i.e. Suitable for thick fabrics. First, the image is transferred to the so-called cigarette. Then attach the resulting template to the clothing in the right place (with pins or clips) and embroider it along the contour. Next, carefully tear off the workpiece. Some needlewomen say that this method is especially convenient for bead embroidery.

Transfer through tissue paper

Through enlightenment

This is probably as popular a method as transferring with carbon paper. Because To perform it, you only need household supplies, which everyone should have. Transferring an image to fabric is done like this. It is necessary to attach the pre-prepared image to the material. Then attach it all to the window, adhesive tape is ideal here, and start redrawing.

Translation by transillumination

Experienced craftsmen usually use an LED tablet instead of a window, but it already costs money - you can find it on ozone for 4,500 rubles*

Iron

First, you need to transfer the illustration with a marker or pencil onto tracing paper, then attach the resulting template to the material and iron it generously and heat it with steam. Embroidering the resulting image is very easy.

Important! The material should be cotton or linen. When using any other types, the picture does not hold up well and therefore it is recommended to use another translation option.

Using a printer

For this method, a prerequisite is a freezer (freezing paper).

Translation using a printer

Action plan.

• Take a fabric, a sheet for freezing and cut out pieces from them to fit A4 sheet size.
• It is good to iron the freezer with the smooth side to the material.
• Send it to the printer.

A pattern embroidered in this way will be very detailed and neat. The disadvantages of this option are: possible damage to the printer, which in principle is quite reasonable, and the impossibility of washing the resulting fake.

Important! Before placing the workpiece into the printer, you need to make sure that the image will be printed on the correct side.

Thermal transfer paper

This case requires relatively low costs and is classified as “advanced” because At least a little experience is required.

Thermal transfer paper

First you need to print the image on thermal transfer paper (you can buy it at any online store), then attach it to the desired location and iron it well. The result will be impressive, and most importantly, this method is the least labor-intensive. The picture will not deteriorate after washing.

To summarize, we can say that this article will definitely answer any needleworker’s question - how to transfer a design to fabric. All of the above methods are easy to implement and suitable for both beginners and professionals.

*Prices are current as of July 2019.