A few of these are now available in our Etsy shop. Click the image to check them out!
Roller derby jammer sugar skull, screenprinted on cotton blend bandannas. Artwork by Mary MacVoy, exclusively for Levigator Press.
Coming soon. . .
Made during my recent visit to the Pixie Fashions studio.
Since the images we tested out were scanned from ink drawings on paper, they’re a little bit messy for the embroidery machine software to render cleanly. But now that I have a better idea of how it all works, I can plan some new drawings specifically for this project. My mind is brimming over with the possibilities of machine embroidering my drawings onto skirts and dresses.
During a visit to the Pixie Fashions studio over the weekend, we tested out some of my drawings with the big embroidery machine. Here is the machine adding black linework to an image of a disembodied bird head with tentacles, holding a sword and breathing fire:
The drawings will need some tweaking to make them more appropriate for embroidery, but the test results looked pretty amazing. Watch for some exciting collaborations between Levigator Press and Pixie Fashions soon!
Plaid:
Oil spills:
Stripes, scallops, and lace on knit fabrics for leggings, scarves, and maybe even some t-shirts:
Stripes, scallops, and plaid on lightweight wovens, for dresses:
The first design in a new line of screenprinted bandannas, featuring artwork created exclusively for Levigator Press by our talented illustrator friend Mary MacVoy (see more of Mary’s work here: marymacvoy.com). We debuted the line at the Roller Derby Association of Canada Eastern Regional tournament last weekend, with great success. Stay tuned for these lovelies to appear in our Etsy shop just as soon as we manage to take the mannequin out for some beauty shots.
Here is a little sample book I made for the longstitch binding class I’ll be teaching tomorrow night at Back Room Gallery. The pages are a mix of reclaimed papers, sewn into a cover made from some old cards used for teaching fractions, which I found at my favourite surplus store in Milwaukee. The book’s spine is a strip of paper cut from an old children’s encyclopædia, backed with cardstock for stability and glued to the cover boards, then sewn with a red zigzag machine stitch. Even the thread is salvaged from somewhere, although I can’t remember for sure where; it might be one of the items I’ve had on hand forever from the fire sale of school supplies that took place after a fire at Exeter Public School, some time in the mid 1980s. Yes, I am a hoarder when it comes to supplies.
13 x 16 x 2.5 centimetres (5 x 6.5 x 1 inches)
108 pages (54 leaves), a mix of creamy Mohawk Superfine and reclaimed papers (maps, sheet music, heavyweight sewing patterns, pages from children’s encyclopædias, and restaurant takeout menu letterpress blanks.
Cover paper is Rives Heavyweight, printed with silkscreen and woodblock. Sewn with blue waxed linen bookbinding thread.
A little stack of covers all ready to be bound into some Coptic journals.