Silk Painting Techniques

Colouring   -

Salt Technique   1. Wash the silk and dry it if needed. Paint the silk and sprinkle coarse Effect Salt into the wet paint. Let the salt absorb the colour until it is dry. 2. Shake the salt off. Fix the silk and rinse out the excess colour.

Cooking Technique   1. Wrap glass and metal objects in the washed silk. Tie with a piece of string. Pour water and Steam Fixed Paint in an old saucepan and let the silk simmer. Turn over the silk now and then. 2. After one hour the colour is fixed, remove the string and the other items - and rinse off the excess colour.

Gutta Technique   1. Attach a Metal Gutta Applicator Tip to the Gutta bottle and write a text and draw lines in the washed silk. Let the colour dry and fill out the spaces with silk colour. 2. Fix the silk and rinse out the excess colour and gutta.

Colour Mix   With a pipette, drip different colours over the wet silk.

6   Dab with your fingers, slightly mixing the colours and spreading them all over the silk. Fix the silk and rinse out excess colour.

Fixing   Silk colour for steam fixing can be fixed in various ways:

Cooking Technique   Put the silk into a saucepan with water and colour – simmer for one hour.

A saucepan with steam   Put water in a saucepan and place over a metal sieve. Put the silk in the sieve. Remember that the water must NOT touch the silk! Put a lid on and fix the silk for 5-15 min. This can also be done in a juice boiler. TIP! If you want to prevent the condensation dripping from the lid and onto the silk during fixation, wrap the silk in a piece of polyester wadding.

Microwave   Moisten the coloured silk with vinegar. Put it on a plate in the microwave at full power for 4 min.