Silk Painting

Today it was decided that i would be in charge of making all the fabrics for the jesters hose, sleeves and collar/hat pieces, because silk painting was the best way to achieve the fabric design on all the jesters.

For the design that i'm working on this is the fabric that i painted for the jesters hose;

I used salt to create the flames and plenty of water so that the colours ran together.

I really enjoyed this session as i learnt a really easy and effective technique which I've never used before and will definitely consider using for future projects. 

For some of the other designs we used batique and painted with wax which stopped the colours from running together and created some really interesting effects.

Here are some of the other fabrics we made for the other jesters;

Here we painted diamond harlequin shapes with wax for one of the jesters

I really like this piece as it really well replicates the design. I used a lot of white in this sample which nicely merged the other colours together.