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Retro Fabrics, Wallpaper and Accessories by Melinamade, Vintage Inspired Designs
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Hi and thanks for visiting my website. I'm Melina Copass, owner, designer, and manufacturer of Melinamade. Melinamade brings back vintage designs by reproducing and re-creating 1950s through 1970s inspired motifs on new Barkcloth cotton fabrics, wallpapers, glassware, and other accessories. Melinamade takes pride in the fact that all designs are specially screen-printed by hand at one of the last standing printing factory's of it's scale here in San Francisco, CA, USA.
The hand silk screening process embraces an older, traditional way of making fabrics and wallpaper. Hand Screened flatbed textile printing is as much an art and craft as a science. The artwork is initially created by hand or on a computer and then transferred on to acetate film positives. Silk screens are burned from the positives using a photographic emulsion process. Two people walk up and down the flatbed tables printing each color frame by frame, with a large squeegee pushing the desired ink through the screen onto the fabric or wallpaper. We use water based pigments "Inks" and cure (to make washable) most of the colors with chemicals that are added to the ink before it is printed. There are three types of pigments in use: Transparent, Opaque, and Metallic. Melinamade mainly uses Transparent inks and some metallics. Transparents are "low solids" pigments; when the fabric is dry there is very little residue left in the fabric. They are very transparent, which means that a color printed on top of a colored ground will be affected by the color of the ground fabric or any other color printed with it. The absorption of the ground fabric, such as the thick nubby texture of my Barkcloth can greatly affect the look of the print and the color value/hue as well. This is used to my advantage to simulate the look, feel, and adherence quality of dyed prints. Metallic Inks used are actually a subset of the Opaques. Today's technology has given us metallics which are not metal at all and are often made up of plastics, mica, and natural oxides. This gives greater chemical stability, eliminates tarnishing problems, and makes it so the fabrics can be machine washed. These three types of pigments can be mixed in any proportions to achieve desired effects. Thus, truly becoming an art of delicate balance. To learn more about hand screen printing, check out, www.zoo-ink.com.
Barkcloth fabric is a 100%,12 ounce , 4-ply weave cotton (supposedly giving the appearance of Bark on a tree) that is ideal for upholstery, drapery, and other home furnishing applications. Fabrics are 56" wide, selvedge to selvedge and pattern repeats vary from 18" to 31". Fabrics are preshrunk, colorfast, and machine washable. The wallpaper is a fabric-like wallcovering paper (called "Liner Paper") made to coordinate with my fabrics or just stand alone. They are water resistant and crackproof. Wallpapers are 27" wide and repeats are every 24" straight. The paper is not pre-pasted and heavy-duty clear vinyl paste is recommended. The glassware is of highest commercial quality. Each design is fired on tempered glass individually making it durable and dishwasher safe.
Contact
Administrative:
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- SAN FRANCISCO CA
- US 94105-2933
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- +1(415)543-1636
Registrant:
- melinamade FABRICS
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- Winters CA
- US 95694
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