Good morning, sunshine. Develop my prints.
(Credit: Lumi)
I silkscreened a shirt once for a middle school art class. It was an intensive, smelly process that didn't come out very well. That's why I'm intrigued by the Lumi Process, a water-based printing method for textiles that uses sunlight to develop the prints.
The Inkodye used in the process was developed from a nearly-forgotten dye formula from the 1950s that has some useful light-sensitive photographic properties.
Here's the system. Take a photo. A free Lumi app turns smartphone images into black-and-white negatives, or you can use your own photo-editing software. Print the negative on transparent film.
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