At Pennsic last year, I bought a laser-cut wooden fabric stamp of an escarbuncle. The escarbuncle is the symbol of our SCA Kingdom. I decided to try out my brandy new stamp and make some simple decorated kerchiefs. I had a bunch of this red poly/cotton fabric left over from some jinmaku projects, so away we go.
I seem to remember making like a dozen of these. The stamp worked very well, provided I was very good about cleaning it between kerchiefs.
Here’s a close-up of one of the better stamped escarbuncles. The only problem with stamping textile color onto fabric (as opposed to painting) is that the stamp can only apply paint to the surface. It doesn’t force paint into the grain of the fabric the way brushing or screen printing does.
Anyway, I put all of these into the largesse derby back in January, so now they are the Crown’s to distribute.
