Silk Painting Techniques

1   Colouring with 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.

2   Colouring with boiling 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.

3   Colouring with gutta technique: 1. Attach a Metal Gutta Applicator Tip to the Gutta bottle and write text ordraw 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.

4   Colour Mix, Step 1: With a pipette, drip different colours over the wet silk.

5   Colour Mix, Step 2: Dab with your fingers, slightly mixing the colours and spreading them all over the silk. Fix the silk and rinse out excess colour.

6   Fixing with boiling technique: Put the silk into a saucepan with water and colour – simmer for one hour.

7   Fixing in 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.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.

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