I've been meaning to get some silk scarves from Dharma to play with. do let me know if you try it! Fingerstothebone: If you use this on paper, or in book-making, I really want to know! Martha: Hair gel! That's brilliant! Now I wanna try it. ![]() Angie: I don't know how rice glue would work - though I have wanted to try using rice flour and cassava flour, and see if there's any difference. Whew! We set some kind of comment record here at the Matchbook - cool! Now I need to catch up and try to touch bases with all you cool folks - thank you so much for taking the time to comment! MK5: LOL, maybe I could make you some for your blog birthday. Here in North America, we can just use a little wheat flour!Ģ teaspoons alum (helps keep nasty smelly bits from growing)įabric paint* I originally said "dye," but you really want to use diluted paint Interestingly, there are other traditions that use starchy pastes for the resist, like rice paste in Japan or cassava flour in Africa. Since I'm only doing small batches now, and doing it primarily for use in fiber art (not clothing) I've been looking for an easier, dry-cleaning free method of getting the same effects. The easiest method I found was dry-cleaning, though I also know people who would iron the fabric between sheets of newspaper. The downside is getting the wax out of the fabric. It's a lot of fun, and you can get some incredible effects. ![]() ![]() I did a lot of traditional batik back in the early 90's. Batik is a resist method of fabric dyeing that uses wax.
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