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By Pam Goodwin

The technique used to create these stripy

fish is a mixture of silk painting and batik.

Some specialist equipment is used but can be

substituted with more readily available items.

Materials Required:

Habotai 8 silk.

Silk frame and pins.

Clear or coloured gutta.

Silk paints and small paintbrushes.

Tjanting (this is a traditional Javanese tool

for applying hot wax, you could use an old

paintbrush instead).

Batik pot (you can use a small saucepan for

melting the wax but just be careful it does

not become too hot).

Batik wax or white candles.

An iron and some old newspapers.

Sewing machine and metallic silver thread.

Autofade pen.

P. V.A. Craft Adhesive.

To Make The Card:

Cut the silk to at least 5cm larger than the aper-

ture of the card. Stretch and pin the silk onto the

frame so that it is taut. Mark out the area (aperture

size plus 5cm) to be painted using gutta, this will

not be visible on the finished design, it just stops

the paint from flowing onto the frame.

Card mount: AP52U, Black.

Choose two or three colours to paint with and

paint narrow stripes on the fabric, these can be

straight or diagonal depending on the effect you

want to achieve. The colours may run slightly

and/or form water marks – don’t worry, this makes

for a more interesting fish. Allow to dry naturally

or use a hair dryer to speed things up.

Remove the painted silk from the frame and

place over the actual size diagram of the fish.

Trace the fish onto the silk using the autofade

pen then place the silk into the frame again.

Actual Size

Place the wax in the batik pot and heat

slowly until it is melted. Using the tjanting or

an old paintbrush apply hot wax to the silk

over the traced lines to make the fish shape and

patterns within it. The wax lines will be wider

than the drawn ones and will tend to merge

together in places, this is normal.

Place the design between old newspapers

and iron until all the wax is removed.

Stitch the lines in silver thread using the fish

outline and pattern on your design to guide you.

This cannot be exact as all fishes will come out

slightly differently depending on how the wax

was applied.

Place a piece of white paper behind the

design to keep the colours bright and mount

the design into the card in the usual way.

Paint over the whole area inside the gutta

square with a dark colour that contrasts well

with the original colour which will be retained

wherever it was painted with wax. Allow the

work to dry.

Hello,

We hope you enjoy this free project. You may hand make copies of this project,

to give away or sell, as many times as you like. You may not use the pattern,

project, text or pictures for any other purpose nor make the project using

any automated process.

The project was taken from a back issue of the Craft Creations Magazine.

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The details above are correct as of 1st July 2001, but are subject to change without prior notice.

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