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How to Print on Burlap

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Published March 19, 2013 by Jennifer. 20 Comments.
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For today’s crafty tutorial, we are going to show you How to Print on Burlap. There are several different ways you can print on Burlap, but for today’s tutorial we are going to print the easy way….from the home printer!

It’s a quick and fun tutorial, and I know you are all going to love this as much as I do.

How to Print on Burlap

DIY Print on Burlap

DIY Print on Burlap

DIY Print on Burlap

DIY Print on Burlap

First let us gather up our supplies needed:  Burlap, Scissors, Freezer Paper, Iron, and Printer. (If you also have a Silhouette Machine, open up the Studio and start putting something fun together. Just make sure to place your setting at 8.5″ by 11″.)

How to Print on Burlap

Now that we have all of our supplies together, it is time to heat up the iron and get going! Cut a piece of burlap a little larger than 8.5″ x 11″, and iron until you have all of the wrinkles out.
Iron Your Burlap

Iron Your Burlap

After you have ironed the burlap, cut a piece of freezer paper to roughly the same size as the burlap. Iron this on (without steam) with the shiny sound down into the burlap. After they are ironed together, go ahead and cut your burlap and paper piece to 8.5″ x 11″.

DIY BurlapOpen up your computer and find something you would like to print. (I opened up my Silhouette Studio and found a cute phrase that I loved and wanted to print out for our house.) Once you have found what you want to print, do a test run with a blank sheet of paper. You will want to know how to place the piece into your printer tray. (My printer happens to print with the burlap starting in the tray facing down.) Ready????? PRINT!

2896516_origOnce you have your new masterpiece in hand, go ahead and remove the freezer paper backing.

DIY BurlapYou can also pull some of the strings on the edges to fray them a bit if you choose.

DIY BurlapAnd there you have it, easy-peasy!

DIY BurlapHere is another one I did this weekend for a friend who is having her baby this upcoming week…

DIY BurlapDid you like this tutorial? Do you plan on doing your own print on burlap? If so, let me know! I love to get feedback. Do you feel like you know How to Print on Burlap now? You can follow me on Facebook here and on Twitter here.

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March 19, 2013 · 20 Comments

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  1. Teri says

    February 16, 2014 at 17:31

    I feel I missed a step. What is the freezer paper for? How do you know if your printer will take burlap, won’t it cause it to jam?

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    • Jennifer says

      February 16, 2014 at 17:41

      You have to cut your burlap and freezer paper to the correct size, and then iron on the freezer paper to the burlap following the directions in the post. Once they are joined together they can go through the printer. I am not sure this will work on EVERY printer, but it worked on mine, which is a HP 6500 inkjet.

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  2. Keri says

    May 2, 2014 at 20:49

    I would like to know which program you use to make your wording? I tried using Microsoft Word but my letters cant get big enough. Thank you for your help & teaching us how to do this.

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    • Jennifer says

      May 3, 2014 at 08:53

      I have used my Silhouette free software that comes with the Silhouette machine,PhotoShop Elements, and I have also used Word.

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    • Sarah Pierson says

      June 3, 2018 at 13:19

      In Word you can increase font size by manually typing in a number. I’ve done this for other paint projects and it worked great.

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  3. Deborah Roll says

    June 1, 2014 at 06:33

    Did you have to change the settings on your printer to accept the burlap- perhaps to the card stock setting?

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    • Jennifer says

      June 1, 2014 at 08:25

      I actually don’t have anything that allows me to change the settings like that. However, if I could, I probably would.

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  4. Vicky B. says

    August 13, 2014 at 07:34

    I wonder if this would work on muslin?

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    • Jennifer says

      August 13, 2014 at 08:16

      I don’t know, I have never tried that before…

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  5. J. Davis says

    September 8, 2014 at 19:06

    Yes, it works on muslin. I have printed pictures on the muslin to use on decorative pillows. But I am going to try the burlap.

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  6. Karol Clark says

    October 29, 2014 at 00:38

    Jennifer – thank you for the tutorial. You may have already figured this out in Word but in the drop down selection for font size all you need to do is make sure the current font is highlighted and type in the size you want (wording highlighted of course). The normal showing is 72pt. I just printed a few things at 300….now if the lines space out to far, solution: Screen print, paste back into word and crop, then you have the desired size! Easy peasy 😀

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  7. Debbie B. says

    January 9, 2015 at 20:57

    I’ve always been concerned about burlap fuzz jamming up my printer. My husband would kill me! 😉 Is that not a problem?

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    • Jennifer says

      January 10, 2015 at 10:24

      It wasn’t when I made this tutorial. You iron it down so it isn’t fuzzy. 🙂

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  8. meagen says

    March 4, 2015 at 22:40

    How do you get your sayings to look so cute? Do you use a certain program

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    • Jennifer says

      March 5, 2015 at 08:43

      I either use something like PicMonkey, Photoshop, or use my Silhouette software. 🙂

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  9. Etta says

    May 20, 2015 at 00:05

    I printed my saying but you could see black streakes were the printer heads went over the top of the material. How did you not get that on yours thanks

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    • Jennifer says

      May 20, 2015 at 17:30

      I am not sure, did you have that problem printing on regular paper as well?

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