Has anyone tried to engrave on cotton?

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There are quite a few posts about cotton if you search the forum, here’s a few to get started:

Testing out cutting and etching fabrics: denim and light cotton

Continuing the discussion from Fabric etching!: Christmas day always gets me in a project mood, whether because I got a new tool or just have the time to devote to something creative (besides cooking, that’s a given.) I have been wanting to test fabric so @bwente, @jamesdhatch and @mspricethelibrarian’s interest coincided with my own plans. First a test pattern in Inkscape. Making the 1/2 squares different colors allows me to choose 10 different dots per inch resolutions available in the cus…

Pillow case engrave?

Cotton canvas as shown in your example pillowcase should engrave ok. Cotton turns a nice brown color when you engrave it. You’ll want to keep the power pretty low and the speed high, to avoid burning through the fabric. Thinner cotton fabrics will burn through easily but canvas (e.g. cotton duck) or denim work pretty well. Dyed cotton will often turn white even at power level 1 (or close to 1). Settings vary a lot depending on the exact fabric. What’s too low for one fabric may leave you with …

Cutting Thin Fabrics for Applique work (Also Heat-n-Bond)

Since I had some thin cotton fabric out after the last project…I wanted to see what would happen when I tried to cut it with the laser. Great success! It would take FORever to cut something like this out by hand, and the results would be no where near as neat as this one turned out. To prep the fabric, I covered it front and back with paper masking tape to keep the residue to a minimum on the fabric itself. Then I just taped it down to the grid, used some double sided Scotch 714 adhesive in …

Using on fabric?

ok, i was just thinking, has anyone tried to burn a design on cotton fabric? I am thinking it would be a cool way to use the glowforge to make designs.