Fabric painting

[Bungadora]

I took a break from work today (I mostly work at home) and went out to sit
amongst my flowers with my new Judith Baker Montano books. I was a happy bunny.
She talks about painting fabric with fabric dyes or watercolor washes to get
greater depth and variation in the background. She also paints in shapes to
guide or to complement embroidery stitches. She also talks about photo
transfers, although it would seem old photocopiers are better for this
procedure than new ones. Has anyone here tried either of these techniques and
how did it go?

I must be getting practical in my old age. The first thing I thought of was "is
it washable?" I might experiment anyway.

Dora

[Bungadora]

Thanks for the feedback. Montano seems to use these painted fabrics mostly as
background for ribbon/floral embroideries too.

I want to make some small jewelry bags to keep my necklaces from tangling in
the box (which they seem to do independently without interference from me) and
I am thinking this would be a perfect technique to experiment with in making
them.

Dora

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>i have used water colors and much diluted acrylics on silk for
>embroidery with very good results. i washed the painted fabric before
>stitching to make sure it the paint didn't bleed onto my threads later.
>i haven't had any problems with the colors washing out or bleeding.
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>background painting does enhance an embroidered piece especially
>flowers; yellow background for purple pansies is perfect.
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[Bungadora]

>On 05 Jun 2003 15:46:26 GMT, bung...@aol.comnospam (Bungadora) wrote:
>
>>Thanks for the feedback. Montano seems to use these painted fabrics mostly
>as
>>background for ribbon/floral embroideries too.
>>
>>I want to make some small jewelry bags to keep my necklaces from tangling in
>>the box (which they seem to do independently without interference from me)
>and
>>I am thinking this would be a perfect technique to experiment with in making
>>them.

>
>perfect idea.
>
>in Kit Nichols book "Painting with Thread" she recommends contrasting
>colors to enhance pictures; as in, yellow background for purple flowers,
>red/green and orange/blue. these bags would also be good as samplers
>for testing new stitches.
>
>this is such a good idea, i may use it myself '-) i want to get some
>stitched items together for the local handcraft sales that abound in
>Germany.
>
Good luck. You'll have to be able to crank them out quite quickly though.
Personally I fuss with things too much, and not always in a good way.

I happen to have bought some silk remnants 1/2 price last week, and was trying
to think of ways to use them. The remnants are yellow, orange and brown, so
purple pansies will be lovely.

I don't think I would paint the brown, but the orange silk might work better
painted. For the first one, perhaps just a plain color wash, brown with streaks
of mossy green. to give the background a bit of depth.

Dora