{"id":54238,"date":"2021-10-17T07:18:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T14:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=54238"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:20:50","slug":"digital-printing-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/digital-printing-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Printing or &#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am using some Windham digitally printed fabric for the exterior of my UCAB. I am finding it to be kind of delicate.<\/p>\n<p>I bought pieces at two different stores, so I am pretty sure the problem lies with the printing process and not the storage at or the transportation of the fabric to the stores.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54262\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211010_183849_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54262\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211010_183849_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Holes left after ripping out\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211010_183849_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211010_183849_wm-sm-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211010_183849_wm-sm.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holes left after ripping out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First, I found that the holes were very noticeable after I ripped out some stitching. Sometimes this happens, but they were still visible even after I rubbed the fabric down.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I did wash the fabric in hot water with Retayne before I used it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54263\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211013_175610_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54263\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211013_175610_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Runs in the fabric\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211013_175610_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211013_175610_wm-sm-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211013_175610_wm-sm.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Runs in the fabric<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I also noticed that this fabric gets runs &#8211; not color runs, but like runs in stockings &#8211; if I am not careful. This happens when fabric is ripped. In this case I don&#8217;t know (and don&#8217;t remember) how the fabric was separated from the bolt.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54240\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211009_161650_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54240\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211009_161650_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Windham Digitally printed fabric\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211009_161650_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211009_161650_wm-sm-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211009_161650_wm-sm.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windham Digitally printed fabric<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I needed some more of the fabric and when I got the second half yard I noticed some flaws.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know that much about the process of printing on fabric. I only have a few experiences with my printer and with buying from Spoonflower.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if the experiences I am having are because it is digitally printed or because of this particular fabric or for some other reason.<\/p>\n<p>I like the fabric and hope this was an anomaly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am using some Windham digitally printed fabric for the exterior of my UCAB. I am finding it to be kind of delicate. I bought pieces at two different stores, so I am pretty sure the problem lies with the printing process and not the storage at or the transportation of the fabric to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/digital-printing-or\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital Printing or &#8230;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-54238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-496","tag-fabric"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54265,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54238\/revisions\/54265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}