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What is special about silk painting?
With its fine fibers, fine silk has a special surface structure. If you put a drop of silk paint on the material, it melts into a fascinating watercolor look. The paint dries to a colored surface that is light in the center and darker at the edges. Depending on which painting technique is used, this effect can be used or suppressed.
Materials needed
Silk paint is a textile paint that penetrates directly into the silk fibers with particularly fine color particles. Depending on the product, the paint is fixed after painting with an iron (iron-fixable paint) or with steam (steam-fixable paint). The silk can be washed afterwards.
To be able to paint silk, it is first stretched on a stretching frame with small needles or special trident pins. In our decoration example, the silk fabric of the silk window pictures is already stretched ready.
You paint with a special silk painting brush: this stores the color liquid particularly well in its fibers and releases it - if desired - only selectively over the tip.