• Fabulous new non-woven, acid free fabric adds interest to art quilts, scrapbooks, ATCs, bookmaking, altered arts
• Ultra-strong sheets are easy to fold, cut, stitch, distress, and embellish
• Create delicate translucent effects with paints, inks, dyes, and stamps
• The perfect size for ink-jet printers or all-in-ones
• Learn all about how to use Lutradur in Fabulous Fabric Art with Lutradur by Lesley Riley
Everyone's talking about Lutradur, the fabulously versatile non-woven fabric. Your customers can cut it, sew it, paint it, print it, stencil it, stamp it, pleat it, dye it, distress it, draw on it, die-cut it, punch it, sculpt with it, bead it, do gel transfers onto it, weave it. Available in 10-sheet packs exclusively from C&T Publishing.
Review By: Nancy Lefko, - January 25, 2010
"A versatile cross between fabric and paper,” Lutradur can be colored, stitched, fused, glued, printed or transferred upon. And that’s just the beginning. It comes in 8 1/2” x 11” sheets; regular (70 gram) and heavyweight (100 gram.)
In working with Lutradur, I added color with acrylic paints, oil pastels and water-soluble crayons. I stamped upon it with Staz-On inks and did rubbings over raised elements, using oil pastels, to add texture to the Lutradur. I think I was most impressed by the printing of images onto the Lutradur via my ink-jet printer. I experimented with printing on treated and untreated Lutradur and definitely like the crispness of the images on the treated Lutradur better. (It can be treated with matte medium, gesso or as I did, spray matte sealant.) I also printed onto painted (and then sealed) Lutradur and really liked the effect.
Although the non-fray quality of Lutradur is what attracts so many artists and quilters, I actually would have liked a torn edge on some of my Lutradur pieces. However, one can manipulate the Lutradur with heat to achieve a less than sharp edge or lacy quality."
