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Silk paints can be applied in different ways, and, of course,
all these techniques can be combined each other or with dying techniques. Although the
most popular silk painting technique is the one called "gutta serti",
there are another ways to get watercolours and another effects, such as
anti-fusants, thickeners, salt or alcohol.
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GUTTA SERTI TECHNIQUE
Gutta is a thick substance that is made from latex
derived from
rubber trees.
It is used to limit silk zones that will be painted in different colours which must
not be mixed. It comes in clear (if you apply it to white silk, the result will be
white), coloured (for example, black) or metallic (golden, silvery...).
» You will find here a small
silk painting guide by clicking
here.
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WATERCOLOUR
With this silk painting technique, the design is represented
as if you were painting a watercolour on paper. You can paint either wet on wet, on dry surface,
or on prepared silk with an anti-fusant. This substance keeps the paint or dye from
spreading when it touches the silk.
You can also use thickeners for a similar function:
the thickener is mixed with paints or dyes, so that you can apply them to the silk
without spreading, staying where they were set.
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DEVORE
Devore technique consists of drawing a design with an acidic product
on velvet to burn out the fabric. This product dissolves cellulose but leaving silk untouched.
So when you rinse it out, the rayon is disolved leaving the design where the rayon was.
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MARBLING
This silk painting technique consists of floating fabric paints
on the surface of a thick liquid, swirling and mixing them into patterns. When you lay a
piece of silk down on top, the paint adheres to it transferring this rare colourful patterns.
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SUN PAINTING
Once the silk is painting as usual, and before it is dry,
some stencils or objects are placed on top, and the fabric is placed in sunlight.
When the silk is dry and you take away these objects, the outlines of the objects are
transferred to the fabric.
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SCREEN PRINTING OR SERIGRAPHY
Screen printing, serigraphy or silk screening was formerly made on silk.
It is a technique consisting of imprinting a screen with your design and force paint onto the
fabric by several methods. This technique is suitable for almost any flat surface: paper,
fabric, wood...
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| Resists dying techniques |
Resist dying consists of fabric dying by preserving its original
colour from dyes in some zones. This preserving methods are the "resists", which can
be of different types: knots, folds, seams... or substances such as wax.
(Of course, these described dying could be done with another fabrics, not only with silk).
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BATIK
Batik is the typical resist dying from Africa, but also India and
Indonesia. The word comes from the word "ambatik" (drawing and writing).
It consists of drawing the design with wax and then dying the fabric. The wax prevents dye
from penetrating the cloth and when you remove it, you will see the drawing in negative,
with the typical marks left by dyes where the wax crackled.
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IKAT
Dying technique where warp threads are hand dyed (by knots or some substance)
before weaving. The word comes from malayan "mengikat", which means "to tye".
It can be found in Indonesia, India, Thailand, Middle East and America.
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TIE-DYE
Typically, tie-dye is known as the one represented by hippie culture.
The garment is tyed or folded around an external element, such as strings or elastics, and then dyed.
Generally, it is said that tie-dye includes "plangi", "shibori", and
"bandhana", although they have special features.
- PLANGI:
Tie-dye from Malaysia and South America.
- BANDHANA:
India traditional tie-dye techniques are known as
"banda" or "bandhana".
- SHIBORI:
Japanese tie-dye that encompasses folding, tyeing, stitching, crumpling... and any kind of
resists. Each one of these
shibori techniques has a different name: kanoko shibori, kumo shibori, arashi shibori,
miura shibori, nui shibori...
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