SilkPainting, Silk Garments next . Colour painted on to damp silk, merges and dries with soft blurred edges. Using a type of gum resist called 'gutta', designs painted onto silk form a colour containing edge. Wax resists also create patterning, as do methods of tying such as Japanese shibori. Salt can be used to create speckling or crystaline effects.
Silk is also especially suited to screen printing.
Silk, that magic fabric woven from the cocoons of mulberry loving moths, has very special properties which allow an affinity with dyes of rich and vibrant colouring. This technique is a decorative printing process where by removing the pile on silk-velvet the transparent design on the silk backing is revealed. The patterns are printed onto white velvet, the pile removed and the fabric is then dyed. This often results in two different colours on the one fabric. Click on this link to see more of this craft next .