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Hi Sian, I love my basket of dyed and painted fabrics and threads, although the colours are more muted than I thought they would be.
I think this is because I hand painted the calicos and silks. The muslins are stronger in colour because I dip-dyed them.
I hand-painted the perle threads when they were dry as I wanted to keep the colours strong and bright.
Method: Fabrics and threads were first soaked in a warm soda solution to act as a fixative. I dried the fabrics before painting them although I did mist some of the samples first so the dyes would blend.
I made up the seven colours of the rainbow from Procion MX dyes, Magenta, Lemon Yellow and Turquoise. I painted the calico and silk with sponge brushes and used artist brushes for the threads.
Ref: Helen Deighan. Dyeing in Plastic Bags. Crossways Patch 2001. Thanks also to Textile Artist Helen Howes who I first met at a Guild meeting and who subsequently showed me how to successfully space-dye threads and fabrics. www.helenhowestextiles.co.uk
Pic 3: Muslin and silk
Bonding: An awkward technique, the bondaweb kept tearing. The most successful was the red oil pastel circles and sponged gold acrylic on silk.
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