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| Very few art or
craft activities offer more opportunities for creative expression
than painting on fabric, especially for wearable art. The textile
paints formulated today are available in a wide array of brilliant
colors; they’re also water-based, nontoxic and perfectly safe for
even young children to use under adult supervision. And children
love to paint on fabric.
You can paint on just about any
textile, and experimentation with various materials is always
encouraged, but here are some suggestions for selecting fabrics to
paint:
For the smoothest application of
paint, choose tightly woven materials. For looser applications,
wetinto- wet techniques, or painted designs that don’t require
precise designs, loosely woven fabrics (with warp and weft threads
clearly visible) are perfectly acceptable.
Some artists prefer to paint on
silk, while others favor quilter’s quality muslin or 100-percent
cotton with a high thread count. Still others like to paint on
velvet, rayon, polyester, and other materials. The choice is really
up to you.
Textile paints are made specifically for fabric painting
(although they can be applied to other surfaces as well). If you’re
just getting started, I recommend trying textile paint. |
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Tools needed for Fabric Painting |
| You really don’t need
lots of expensive tools or equipment for fabric painting:
• Paintbrushes: both flat and round-tip,
in various sizes
• Foam brushes: inexpensive, for smoothest application
• Sponges: manmade and sea sponges
• Toothbrushes: for spattering on paint
• Plastic buckets: for rinsing out brushes and sponges as you work
• Plastic covering: to protect the work surface
• Apron: to protect your clothing
• Plastic or Styrofoam plates: for disposable painter’s palettes
• Spray bottle
• Paper towels
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Using your
fabric scraps
Fabric and textiles surround us, from our clothing to our carpets.
Color, pattern, texture and design affect both our mood and our
pocketbooks. Everyone has fabric scraps. They are in clothes that
no longer fit, or draperies that are being replaced. As a frugal
homemaker you can take these scraps and make items of value. I
have seen numerous old drapery panels sell for large amounts of money on
eBay. They are either being used to decorate homes with a retro or
shabby chic design, or are being cut down for pillows. There are
many, many ways to use fabric. Here are some ideas to recycle fabric,
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Fabric
Painting Techniques
It only takes a few minutes to learn the following Outline, Fill-In, and
Blending techniques to begin painting. Remember to paint in small
sections no larger than 1 square inch which allows you to Outline,
Fill-In and Blend the paint while it is still wet.
Outline
The first step in painting is to Outline using the following technique:
Hold the bottle upright and vertical. Place the tip just inside the
design line, not over the line. As you paint, the width of the paint
from the tip will cover the line. If you place the tip over the line,
the paint will overlap outside the line. Position the design so that it is always possible to see the part you
are painting. Paint toward you, or right to left if you are right
handed, so that you can see the part of the design you are painting.
C. Outline as if you are tracing the lines of the design. It is not
necessary to go back and forth to get a solid outline of the design you are
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Fabric painting: painting of
African pots, kiddy cartoons, paintings with encouraging scriptures,
tablecloths, banners for churches, making of wooden vases, headboards &
coffee tables. In process of making GEL AND WAX CANDLES
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Kits - 4 - Africa
Our kits are all
custom made as we find that everybody had different tastes and
needs, for example we make up kits for children's birthday
party's for all ages and these can range from
beaded key rings for boys and girls to Mosaic/Decoupage picture
frames,
also very popular is the actual birthday present being an entire
beading kit from as little as R60.
Our placemat sets
come finished or ready cut with backing and filling for you to
sew.
We also do handbags, in kit form, ready to sew or made up for
you. We can also convert
any photograph to a cross stitch pattern and can convert your
old slides into digital format.
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Slipstream Fabric Finishes
Slipstream brings
extraordinary color into your everyday world with our quality
hand made finishes on textiles and fabrics. We teach what we
know.
Craft Kits:
Our craft kit
is packaged in a cheerful red bucket, which is used to do the
dyeing in so students do not have to use pots. Inside is
everything needed to produce a T-shirt like the one on the
packaging, from dye and T-shirt to mask and gloves. Just add hot
water!
Kids Tie Die Birthday Parties:
We
will come to your home or venue with our mobile studio and
entertain the kids at your Birthday party with our tie dye
techniques. Each child leaves with a beautiful tie dyed T-shirt
that they have produced themselves.
Quilters Fabric Kits: We
now have hand dyed fabrics for quilters. We use a fine quality
100% cotton fabric from a reliable source and dye it by hand
into an infinite slection of hues. No two packs of fabric will
ever be the same. Each pack is totally unique and must be
appreciated as a hand dyed item as opposed to something that has
been mass produced by a machine. Each pack has its own charm.
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