So this is a quick video on how to make
a rust print on material and the
materials I've got are some rusty
chicken wire, a bowl to contain white
vinegar, the all-important material: I've
got some linen that I pre dyed, and also
some pliers to cut the chicken wire and
I've got a couple of different pairs of
gloves - kitchen rubber gloves and also
some gardening gloves - and some string. So
that's the ingredients to make this
little recipe, so let's begin! First of
all I need to soak the material in
some vinegar and I just use cheap white
vinegar because the vinegar is going to
help with transferring the rust off the
chicken wire and into the material. So,
the technical part - basically just laying
the material out and putting the
chicken wire on. Now you don't have to
use chicken wire, you can use any rusty material - like
rusty nails, or erm, well anything. But you
probably find if you go into your shed or
friends shed that there are lots of old
gardening piece of equipment. Even
these - look - pliers, they've got rust on them.
You could put them on there and the print will
transfer from them. But I'm just thinking
something simple for this. You can't see
the whole length of the material but
that's okay, you'll get the general gist.
So simply doing it really quickly and
the reason I'm doing it quickly is
because I actually dismantling the
chicken run because we're getting the
house ready to sell and the chicken run
was kind of falling apart anyway and
there is so much work that I need to do
out in the garden, that I really need to
get back out there, but I couldn't go
past the opportunity to do something
creative with this fabulous piece of
rusty wire! So it's going to be a quick
one. Now you can't see it but the end is not
quite long enough, so I'm just going to
cut a little bit more of the wire. I'll
show you cutting the wire so ...
I mean you know it doesn't
have to be perfectly laid out or
anything like that. It really depends on the
look you want. But with the chicken wire
I guess I'd like it to be fairly
consistent all up and down the material. Okay
the camera just fell over because I got it
caught up in the chicken wire! So you
might have a slightly different [camera] angle now!
Anyway here we go. So. Material. Chicken wire.
I might lay some cling wrap just to
stop a double print. So to act as a resist.
And it's just a matter of rolling
it up. So it doesn't really matter how
you do it, as long as you've got contact.
And there goes my glove!
So I'm going to take that off!
Now some of this is poking through the
material and hopefully, it won't make too much
of a mess or damage it too much. So there you go.
That's that. So this now I'm just going
to give it one more fold, and I'm just going to
dip it in the vinegar. So here's our
bundle. So I've got my steaming pot over
here. Just water in there. I'll put that in
there and put the lid on it and then leave it.
Wow look at this! This is looking pretty good!
I steamed it for an hour and I've let it
just sit and cool slightly. So the
important thing now is to stop the iron
from continuing to oxidise onto the
material because if we don't stop it
from doing that what will happen is the
rust will basically burn holes in the
material which was really don't want to
do. Certainly not with this piece of
material anyway. So I'm going to unwrap it,
and then I'm going to dip it into a
solution of salty water and leave it
there to soak for a little while so here
we go!
It's exciting isn't it? I probably ought to be
wearing gloves. The messiest part of the whole
thing and I haven't got gloves on!
Okay wear gloves!
Wow! Isn't it stunning?
Beautiful isn't it? Lovely colors. I like it
with the blue. So a bowl of hot water,
a broken bag of salt! A 'goodly' amount - and then put
this in and just let it sit there and
the alkali of the salt will just
counteract the effect of the acid.
Remember we used acid before and it will
just stop that rusting process from
continuing. So we'll just leave that about 15 minutes!
Look at the results now
that it's dried!
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