Join Our Email List Sales, promos, news Links Sennelier Tinfix Design - 100 Ml. Batik on silk, Stenciling, Silk Screen, Direct Painting, Marbling, Airbrushing. They have over 100 years of experience, so they had a while to figure out how to make a good dye. The colors are highly concentrated and therefore very vivid and intense. Said to prevent weakness at the edges of your paintings and capable of infinite graduations by diluting with Tinfix dye thinner.
Fabrics remain soft, supple and transparent.
They have an exceptionally high resistance to light and responsiveness to salt techniques. In fact, each color is coded for it's resistance to light and responsiveness to salt techniques. As an alternative, a liquid chemical fixative is available which requires only that you submerge the dry painted silk in it for 10 minutes or paint the fixative onto the silk. You use 1 part fixative to 9 parts water. Setting the dye in this manner gives results that are equal to or better than any other chemically set silk dye.