Silk Painting Made EasySusan Penny, Martin Penny Throughout history, it has been the most prized fabric of all -- luxurious, soft, flowing silk. But it's more than just a scare or a robe: it's a smooth canvas, ready for painting. Decorate long swaths of material with eye-catching designs that coordinate with your outfits or your home. Bright, cheerful projects will transform any room. Several easy-to-learn painting techniques, and a whole host of templates, make it all simple to do. On a scarf, paint a delightful rural scene, featuring grazing and lazing black and white sheep, lush meadows, and brown hills. Reduce the pattern to fit on a handkerchief. Or enlarge it on a bedspread -- that will make it easy to count sheep at night! Or, if you're feeling a little less ambitious, just paint a small picture of one lone sheep against a grassy background. A tartan cushion and tie-back really dress up a chair or couch, and you can easily change the colors to match your own scheme. And there ate many more! You'll get lots of ideas to follow exactly or adapt creatively! |
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Add more paint allow to dry amount of paint angel Angel Delight ball-point pen bias binding box top brush Caroline Palmer clean cloth cloth and iron container of clean cord cotton setting Daisy Chain dolly double-sided tape draw dry for 3-4 edge embroidery hoop Embroidery ring fabric for mounting fabric paint fix the colours fix the paint fluffy towel frame or hoop glitter glue green paint Habutai kitchen paper Leave to dry lime green Machine stitch mandarin orange marker pen masking tape Mount the silk Mounting and Fixing orange outliner to dry paint colours paint will spread painted fabric painted silk Painting Techniques pins Press the silk raspberry pink resist lines Resist outliner paste running stitches salt effect scarf Seahorse seam allowance sheep silk fabric silk painting frame soft pencil stamp stretched silk stripes tie-back Topiary Trace the design turquoise wadding Wash wet paint wet-on-wet white paper