(Un)limited Design Contest

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materials needed:
-a piece of felt 3mm thick, I bought mine in Vilta BV, Donker Curtiusstraat 17, 1051 JM Amsterdam / tel: 020.68.41.139. They have a lot of colours to choose from but since the laser burn the edges , I recomand a dark color. The basic shape of 6 butterflies is 184.15mm x 254.99 mm you need minimal 2 times the basic shape to make a necklace. Your minimal felt piece should be then 185 mm x 510mm . The lenght of your necklace depend of the number of butterfly you make. The more you cutt out, the biger it is!
-(optionnal) Customise your butterflies with simple screenprinting technique:
*To make the stamp, you need:- a piece of vinyl bigger then an A4 (the vinyl machine use borders).
*To print you need:- a screen A4, a scraper, textil ink that you can you can find it in the shop levant in amsterdam ( www.levant.nl) and some weight to make a good print.

to step 1 (optionnal): Customise your butterflies with simple screenprinting technique.
*first  cut out the screenprinting pattern with the vinyl cutter machine (see blue print). take away the shapes and stick it on the outside of your screen.
*second you print your pattern. fix you felt on the tabble, place your sceen, put weight on it and print. the marks help you print several times following each other correctly. when it is dry you can adjust the laser cutter to cut it out.

step 2 : place your felt in the laser cutter machine. make the focus. copy the drawing ‘2 basic shapes to cutt’ (see attachment ). Use the screenprinting marks to delimit and adjust your cutting area (2 basics shapes is 184.15mm x 254.99mm) you need to enter the four outside marks in the laser nachine. If you didn’t screenprint just cut it out where you want on your felt.

step 3: settle the speed to 2 and the power to 100.

step 5: cut.

step 6 : assemble your necklace, see the two differents ways on the pictures. For way nr2 you need a piece of ruban to close your necklace.