Laser cut for a printing plate workshop

In this workshop we were learning how to produce a printing plate form a 2d black and white image. The image had to have some contrast and enough of halftones. Having my floral wallpaper in mind, I chose a photo of the flower below to draw from:

The drawing was later on scanned and filtered in photo shop. I had to use filter that only use black and white 'information', no colours or greys would be possible as laser needs to have binary information. It was interesting how one can create half tones only using black- I found it similar to cross hatching way of thinking.

I layered up few filters to get enough definition, which shows in the very first photo. It looked like it should print well, but for some reason my printing plate was missing many details shown in the first photo.

Not surprisingly the prints came out very vague. I didn't get a chance to troubleshoot it with laser tut

ors yet, but had I considered this method for the wallpaper, I would have to get to the core of what didn't work.

Whilst in laser print studio, I found a lot of inspiration. I was thinking of creating 3d shapes for installation that would accompany the wallpaper. I especially like the idea of trying acrylic blocks for it and then hanging them of a celling like a mobile, or mounting in any other way in a show area.

I also liked how a pattern can be cut out in fabric and create a kind of 'see-through' curtain:

Laser offers another possibility: cutting halfway into fabric. The effect looks very interesting and depends on fabric and image used. This could be potentially a part of less intense backdrop for the wallpaper: