This has been niggling in my head for the past couple of days. I couldn't wait any longer ..... not because I am impatient you understand but for experimental reasons
I chose to paint one piece with orange and the other with turquoise, I think rust and turquoise are gorgeous together don't you? I used course sea salt on the turquoise piece and sugar on the other piece. The silk with the salt resist dried very quickly and here it is. Beautiful or what? I really love this and have already put a nice big piece of silk in to pickle to do this again (bet it doesn't work this time!). I have also put in a cotton piece for pickling and want to try procion MX dye with that piece.
Where is the orange piece you ask. Well it is still drying. I forgot how awful the sugar becomes. I should have remembered but was too keen to get the results. The sugary piece got stuck on the bubble wrap. I have removed it and it is currently drying on the lawn.
I am not sure if either of the resists has worked too well since the fabric was lying directly onto the bubble wrap. Next time I am going to frame the silk that way I should get a far better salt resist design. That's why I put a larger piece in today. I shall wait a couple more days before I take that one out of the pickle.
The scraps won't go to waste even although they are just experiments as I intend using them in my postcard swap.
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You are brilliant, all this experimenting, must be the teacher in you, I love the results too, now we'll have to try some.... Oh no not till I get back boo hoo:):)
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