Screen printing on plain cotton saree

It had been a year that I could not work on screen printing. I have many beautiful designs of screen. Recently  I had designed a screen printing on a saree, which I had shared in the post : Screen printing on saree after years.
Yesterday worked on another saree. This was also a plain cotton saree in purple color, with very beautiful stripe border in Yellow and Maroon. To design on sarees with plain border is quite easy. Any motif can be used  to design the saree. So I used motif of peacock design along the border :

 Here is the closer view of the motif:

To  match the border I printed maroon and yellow paisley motifs.
The pallu has lines of gold zaree, so printed small peacock motifs on that:

I'm planning design many sarees, and next project is designing the blouse for this dakai jamdani saree with Kamal embroidery.

 Soon will share about the same.
Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Screen printing on saree after years

Always its fun with screen printing. When I learnt how to do screen printing, I had used it for makeover of sarees. With screen printing and embroidery an ordinary saree looks like a designer saree. As I was busy with jewelry designing last year so could not work with screen printing.
 This is my friend's saree, which she had given to design quite  sometime back. She wanted screen printing on this saree:

This is a simple hand-loom cotton saree in mehandi color, with zari border. The border has small paisley designs, so I selected paisley motifs to print on this.

This design is not the traditional paisley, little modified to give a trendy look. I printed these paisley designs along the border of the saree with dull gold color. First I thought of using bright gold color, dropped the idea, since it would have looked very bright.

All along the border and near the pallu I screen printed these motifs. The pallu is green with gold color lines, so left it as it is:

Hope this is come out good and my friend likes it. Planning to work on another saree with screen printing. I will share about the same in my next post.
Till then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Saree designing with screen printing- For sale

I have designed  many sarees , most of the time according to customer's suggestions. I have used the color combinations they have suggested. This is the one I have used the color combination of my choice .
The saree is fine cotton saree with two shades, Maroon and Green. As the shades have covered half of the length, so I have used big motifs along the border.
The motif I have used is :

 

The motif has two Apsaras (Angels)dancing and a pair of peacock on top of them. 

The motifs along the border looks like this :

 

The pallu:

 

And this has attached blouse, on which I printed paisley design on both the side :

The closer view of the motif on the blouse

 

 I loved the green and maroon combination. Hope the Gold color motifs good on that, which goes well with Maroon as well as Green, making the saree very traditional.

This is for sale on my FB page : https://www.facebook.com/RanjanasCreations

  Hope you liked the saree. Wearing this a lady will definitely look like an Apsara . What do you say?

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana 

Make over of an ordinary saree- Screen printing again

One of my clients had given a very ordinary saree for make over. Here it is :

 I tried to convince her a lot , not to go for make over of this saree, because that would be expensive and it might not look good also. But as it was last gift from her parents, she wanted to wear this saree. So she insisted for make over. 

It was really difficult for me. This is very normal saree, heavy lace won't look good for this. I went for normal zari lace. Attached it along the borders.Always I use screen printing for make over. Printed with big rose prints, as it is matching with lace.

 

 

And printed small motifs along on Pallu. Still I was not happy with the look, tried 3d glitter paint on the motifs and attached some kundans.

 

Closer view of the motif:

 

She is happy to with the work, at least she can wear this occasionally  . 

Soon working on writing on a series of sarees of India. In next post share about Kantha saree of West Bengal . 

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Screen Printing tutorial

Many were requesting me to teach Screen printing.Also , I had received many emails  regarding queries about screen printing. So I thought I should post a tutorial about screen printing.
Screen printing can be done on any kind of cloth, but if it is done on Silk or Cotton, the effect is very nice.
The materials needed are as below:

 

Materials : Binder, Fixer , Gold powder( or any color ) , spatula and  of course a design screen.

In a bowl , the gold color powder shall be mixed with binder and fixer .

 The material shall be mixed well with the help of spatula.

 

The cloth should be spread on a wooden table.Then place the screen on the cloth.

 The mixture prepared should be put on the screen,

 The color put on the screen should be pressed gently with a rubber spatula against the screen.

 The design will be printed on the cloth  You can the print I have made on the cloth below:

Hope this tutorial will be helpful to many craft lovers. 

I'm designing a saree with screen printing , soon will share about that,

Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

 

Saree Design with Lace and Screen printing

This is again an attempt to repair my sister's saree which was spoiled by me. I don't know everytime I take her saree, either the design won't come good or it will be spoiled. :(.

Its a lovely silk saree with unique color combination, light bottle Green with Gold border. While giving this my sister warned  me many times not to spoil this saree.
In spite of all her warning I spoiled this. I tried with machine embroidery. At that time I had not learned  the machine embroidery properly. Uhh look at my guts. The result was as below, very bad very bad!

 

Somehow I had to repair this, otherwise my sister would demand 10 times more than this saree. So to cover my fault, I used brocade cloth and laces. Made the lace with brocade cloth and attached along the border. And Brown and Rust colored borders on the both the sides of the brocade  border. Of course, screen printing is best method to make the cloth beautiful and hide the odds! Painted the border with Paisley designs with Gold and Green color. 

 

And on the Pallu, big Paisley designs in Gold and Green pearl color.

 

I was quite happy with  the designs. But my sister, same old comment "You always use my saree for practising. By spoiling my sarees you are becoming perfect!". TRUE! :)

Recently could not work on crochet. Soon share about a colorful crochet afghan .

Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Kerala Cotton saree screen printed

I've been very busy since last month. So could not work on any saree, all the colors were sitting idle :-).  For Dasara I had 2 days holidays. So screen printed on two sarees, one of them is Kerala Cotton saree.

 

On the border printed with Ambari designs and and on the body also printed small motifs of the same designs.

 

Closer view of the motif:

 

Another one is Black color South cotton, with Orange border, printed with two colors:

 

Here is the motif: 

 

And for the  pleats, flower motifs:

 

Still orders from my friends are pending. Hope to complete those soon. Once completed definitely share those designs with you. 

Until then,

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Pink saree with screen printing

This is also my friend's saree. Pink with maroon border.
I used dull gold and maroon combination for the saree. Along the border printed paisley designs

 and on the pallu printed flower motifs.

Attached small kundans on it,

 

I struggled a lot to decide on the color of the prints. The saree has silvery gold color, which very difficult to make with screen printing colors. Then went ahead with dull Gold as it will give the contrast effect of silver and gold. Hope I have taken the right decision.What do you say?

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Cotton saree with Screen printing

This is a Magenta cotton Saree with Green border.
Screen printed with big motifs of "Dancing Lady", along the border. I have not used any other motifs as I wanted the dancing lady motif to be prominent.
Here it is :

Closer view of the motif:

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana

Theme Saree- At last my Deepavali saree is designed

This is what happens with me! For any occasion I wish to design a saree or dress, for that occasion, it will not be completed :-(. This is the saree, I wanted to design and wear on last Deepavali. But as usual could not.
It has screen printing, machine embroidery and Kalamkari patch work on it.
The cloth and the lace I bought are here:

The cloth is fine crepe. Liked the lace,it has unique design!Isn't it?

I wanted to design the saree with a theme. As the lace has design of pots on that, decided paint it with" lady bringing water in pot" design. In some handicraft shop I got Kalmakari and embroiderd patches of lady holding water pot. I had screen with motif of " lady holding pot" , design. Used all of these and the final outcome is below.

Stitched  both the laces  along the border and screen printed with the lady holding the pot design along it.And also attached antique Gold color chamkis in between.

Here is the closer view of the border:

The pallu has Kalamkari patches and embroidered patches along with antique Gold Chamkis:

Closer view of the patches:

 

The blouse is Khadi silk.

As it has earthy  color , I thought of Terracotta jewellery , but could not get proper one. So going ahead with Silver Jewellery with brown stones:

I don't have a mannequin to display the Saree. Trying to display it on the floor :-)

I've named this as theme Saree, since complete Saree is designed on a theme. This is liked by some of my friends, some of them have asked me to design theme Sarees for them.  Hope to design some more theme sarees. Hope they don't have to wait long for that!  :-)

Love , laugh and live the life to the fullest,

-Ranjana