Silk painting techniques

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Instructions, required materials, recommended materials, books, kits, and tools for the French Serti Method of painting on silk.

Any of you that paint on silk will be familiar with the alcohol technique. For those of you that don't paint on silk you may be surprised to know that it doesn't mean having a wee dram before starting the project. Alcohol is used to displace the dye to form patterns by painting onto dry unfixed dyed silk. It will only work with dyes, not silk paints, as long as the silk dye has not been fixed. My sequence of pics show the process in stages. 1. After stretching the silk on the frame I painted…

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