A Beginner's Silk Painting

What do you think of my naive and clumsy efforts at silk painting? Would you like to have a go?

It was much harder than I thought it would be and most of it was achieved through trial and error but it hasn't put me off. I love the feel of the loaded brush against the silk fabric and how the colours look and behave. The silk has amazing absorbency and sucks up the colours with gusto!

If you're interested in having a go, you're welcome to visit my web page in the Gallery at Fibrecrafts to see how I got on and how you can learn from my mistakes.

The Silk Painting Explorer Pack offers the materials and equipment to get started with free-style silk painting and you'll also need an gutta outliner if you wish to emulate the effects used in my painting. Have fun! Allison

Felted Flowers by Ruth Beer

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Above is a detail from a piece of Ruth Beer's stunning felt work. Ruth felted the colourful flowers from Fibrecrafts wool tops and then added stitching and sequins for a 3d effect. Here is a link to Ruth's page so that you can see the entire piece or you can take a while to browse the whole of the Gallery

Fine Paintings on Mulberry and Lokta Paper

This superb painting was created by Diana Fenney using Procion dyes and a wax resist. Diana uses either the pretty Mulberry papers or the textured Lokta papers as her canvas.

Visit Diana's page in the Fibrecrafts Gallery to see more...

It's in the Bag!

Painting your own bag will give you the chance to experiment with graphic design and colour combinations. There's no need to buy off the peg - now you can create your own unique style and go on to paint shoes, t-shirts, scarves and more. Click here to see how this design was achieved.

How can you Resist it!

Silkpaint Water-Soluble Resist offers the textile artist a variety of options for patterning their fabrics or paper.

It can be diluted with water or dyes and used as an outliner in silk painting or it can be used as a thickener for printing and painting with dyes. It can be used to inhibit the flow of paint on treated fabrics by diluting it to 1 part resist and 3 parts water or it can be stenciled or screen printed to create batik effects. Steam, heat set or fix dyes according to manufacturers instructions, machine wash on delicate cycle and iron while damp. We recommend you create test pieces prior to starting a project. See more...

These rollers are ideal for using with the resist. They can make light work of creating borders or patterns. Click here to see these items on our web site