There are various ways to paint on silk. The way you set the dye in the fabric depends
on what kind of paints you use. There
are different types of resist to help create designs. Depending on what kind of resist used changes
the way you would apply and remove the resist.
Since there are so many ways to go about painting on silk, I’ve made a
basic chart to follow.
In class I will use the
method I find to be the simplest and most affordable.
Hot wax and ink or watercolors, using watercolors won’t give you as
strong of a color as the inks specially designed for silk painting, but they
work and still look nice.
Remember when using hot wax, its hot and can easily stick to anything.
Give yourself enough space when working with silk.
Information below was borrowed from
Types of resists
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Resist
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Paint
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Resist Removal
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Techniques
mostly used for
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Solvent based Gutta
Made from latex
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Remove only if you choose to. Wall hangings are generally left with the
gutta. Clothing items usually have the gutta removed. Dry cleaning is used to remove gutta. They use a gutta solvent for the removal
and clean up
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French Serti Technique
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Black, Gold and Silver Guttas
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These can be used to avoid a white defining
line.
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Colored Gutta
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Do not dry clean silk with colored gutta. The color in the gutta will be removed with
the gutta
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Are meant to be left on the silk. Meant for
wall hangings
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Metallic Gold and Silver Gutta
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Do not dry clean these. Or the colors will be removed with the
gutta. The metal in in pigment is held together by the gutta
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Wall hanging pieces or pieces that allow gutta
to stay on fabric. Because these
guttas will flake off after a lot of use, you should choose where you want to
use these guttas wisely.
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Water soluble (gutta-like) Resists
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Work best
with iron set silk paints (Dye-na-Flow, or SetaSilk) Other dyes which are meant to be set with
steam can make removal difficult. The
water soluble resists on www.dharmatrading.com
have steam set paints that work well
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Come out with warm water
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Some artists feel like Water soluble
(gutta-like) Resists don’t hold a line as well as gutta, so they chose to
avoid this type. Over flooding the
resist line will cause it to dissolve.
So even though it’s easier to apply and remove you want to take care
with how you apply your paint.
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Gold & Silver Metallic and Black &
Colored Water Soluble (Gutta-Like) Resists
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Metallic resist can be dry cleaned and the
color will not come out. These metallic colors are not as bold as the gutta metallic. You will be able to feel the metallic
resist on the fabric, since it will not come out after dry cleaning.
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Used in place of gutta, in order to avoid the
harsh smell of gutta or having to find companies that will ship these
resists.
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Wax-
Melted and applied hot. You can use the traditional Tjanting tool,
paint brush or get creative and try different tools to create designs.
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Batik and Batik Variations
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Beeswax
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Used with Paraffin to make a crackle effect, this
is common in Batik designs.
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Sticky wax
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Low cost synthetic substitute for beeswax
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Wax substitutes
Couple of brands are,
Inko Resist and Presist
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Use with
thick dyes. You can thicken your dyes
with Sodium alginate or you can use paint.
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You can use water to remove resists
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Applied cold, painted on the fabric and then
you need to let it dry before you use paint. Do not use to submerge a fabric
in dye, or the resist will dissolve.
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Types of paints and how to set them
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Type of
paint
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Brands of
paints
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Steam-fix Liquid dyes
Steam set dyes will leave a more bold color than other
paints meant to be set with chemicals or with a hot iron.
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Chemical-fix Liquid dyes
fixed using a liquid fixative
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Powdered Acid Dyes
recommended for solid dyeing silk, but can also be
used for silk painting
steam-setting
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Jacquard Acid Dyes
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Fiber Reactive Powder MX Dyes
Set with steam or by using the Cold Batch Method
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Dharma, Jacquard, Pro MIX
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Flowable Silk Paints
Set by iron and are recommended for beginners
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SetaSilk, Dye-na-Flow, Jacquard
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Dharma Pigment Dye System
air dry for 24 hours and heat-set 15-20 minutes in a home
drier or two minutes with an iron
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YouTube videos that
show different wax techniques:
I posted two photos of silk painting styles that I like.
There are many silk painters out there, I was just drawn more to the technique
and materials. Instead of posting famous
artists, I’m posting images of silk paintings that I like.
Collected by Mr Bac
artist unknown
A Tanzania batik
artist unknown
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