On Demand: Demo: Image Transfer onto Fabric with Batool Showghi
Original images and designs will print on Transfer Paper, and then these images will be transferred on cloth.
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About this event
Join us for this online demonstration Image Transfer onto Fabric with Batool Showghi.
Participants will begin by selecting and working with their own original images and designs, which they will print onto transfer paper. These printed designs will then be transferred onto cloth. Once the images are transferred, participants will have the opportunity to develop their work through a range of techniques including stitching, sewing, drawing, and painting directly onto the cloth. This layered approach allows for a highly personal and expressive outcome, combining image, texture, and colour.
Required materials
- Iron on Cool Peel Transfer Paper
- An image or a collage to print on Transfer Paper (This could be done before the workshop)PLEASE NOTE: You need to make a mirror image of your design (Or flip it horizontal) before printing it!
- An Iron
- A firm surface such as a table
- A folded quilt cover to use on the table for ironing
- Some pieces of white or light-coloured fabric 100% cotton or blends with 50% or more cotton
Optional materials
- Photo Fabric: paper-backed fabric for use with inkjet printers
- Silk Inkjet Printable Fabric Sheets
- Oil crayons or chalks and some felt pens
Please note that this ticket is for a recording of the live event on 1 November. Tickets for the live event are available here. You will be emailed access details to the recording by 15 November. The recording is not downloadable but will be available for viewing until at least 15 December, 2025.
We are running a number of short workshops and demonstrations which are £2.99 for members and between £10 and £15 for non-members. As well as upcoming events, members can also access recordings of past workshops at a reduced price, to watch at their leisure.
Why not join us to access this discount and other membership discounts too?
You can find details on Guild Membership at https://embroiderersguild.com/membership
The demonstration will be in webinar format (i.e. attendee video and microphones will be turned off). You will be free to ask questions in the chat and will also have an opportunity to share images inspired by the demonstration on Instagram and Facebook.
Your Demonstrator
Batool Showghi is a multidisciplinary artist who taught part-time at Harrow College from 1998 to 2015, and now exhibits widely in the UK and internationally. Passionate about artists’ books, her work moves between photography, illustration, painting and textiles evolving from single images to books, images in boxes, installations and mixed media work.
Batool’s artwork is concerned with her cultural heritage, memory, identity and loss. She wants to examine the physical limits that women can experience with regard to cultural and religious boundaries. She frequently returns to Iran to draw inspiration and source new material. Her vocabulary is diverse and she transforms documents, calligraphy, portraits, patterns and everyday objects into beautiful and densely layered pieces.
Her work has been exhibited at places including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, The Mall Galleries, the Phoenix Art Gallery, the Jaggedart Gallery, The Asia House Fair, London Art Book Fairs, and at the Stock By Nayland Festival.
Sharing your creations inspired by the demonstration
We would love to see your designs on Instagram and Facebook using the hashtag #egdemos
For others to see your posts on Instagram, your account needs to be public. To see them on Facebook, the post needs to be public.
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