Clover Chacopy Paper

Clover Chacopy Paper

I visited the lovely ladies at Christina’s Crafts in Prospect, South Australia to try and track down a few products, including a white graphite paper for transferring a design onto a dark fabric. They ended up recommending a product which I cannot rate highly enough after my own experiments!

Clover Chacopy is a transfer paper. A pack cost me $7.50 and in it you get 5 30×25cm sheets of different colours - blue, red, green, white and yellow - to suit any colour fabric you can imagine. You lay your fabric with the transfer paper shiny side down, then trace your design. You end up with a nice sharp line which does not rub off like chalk, and according to the ladies at Christina’s it does not fade like some other transfer methods can. This means you can work on your project for as long as necessary as long as you do not iron the fabric. The line washes off in water, but you must leave it to dry thoroughly naturally otherwise the line may reappear.

Goldwork Design

I have not used any method of transfer which was this simple and effective. I have had to use lead pencil and ball point pen in the past as I have had transfer pens disappear in warmer weather and have found it difficult to transfer except onto white fabric. This product is well worth keeping in the cupboard.

You can also use the sheets over and over. I was shown the store tracing paper and the white had been thoroughly used hundreds of times and was still going strong. The only downfall is that it doesn’t work onto springy fabrics like felt or wool.