Silk Painting

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Silk Painting

• Crafts

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What is Silk Painting?
Silk painting is creating art on fabric with silk
as the canvas.
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History of Silk Painting

• Silk painting can be traced back to the 2nd
  century AD in India when the 'wax resist'
  technique for embellishing silk was used.
• The batik industry in silk flourished about 200
  years later.
• In the 1920s hand painted silk designs began to
  appear in France.
• It wasn't until the 1970s that silk painting
  became really popular in the U.S.

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Materials Needed
Resist - wax resist, gutta resist Dye Brush S
mock - dyes will stain clothes! Paint cups Cup
of Water Newspaper over work space Silk
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Steps
The Serti (closing or fence) technique Step 1
Prewashing your silk Step 2 Preparing your
design Step 3 Making a Stretcher Frame Step 4
Stretching your silk Step 5 Applying gutta or
resist Step 6 Applying dyes or paints Step 7
Setting/Fixing the color Step 8 Removing clear
gutta or clear water-based resist
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Applying resist
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Applying Dyes
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The technique of applying dyes is very similar to
painting with watercolors.
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Example of silk painting in progress
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Example of completed silk painting using the
Serti Technique
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Another example
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another example
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Your assignment
Paint a mandala design on a pre-stretched round
silk.
Step 1 Come up with an original mandala
design Step 2 Transfer the design onto the
pre-stretched round silk Step 3 Trace your
design with gutta or resist Step 4 Neatly paint
the design with dyes
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What is a mandala?
The word mandala is from Sanskrit, a classical
Indian language developed over 2,300 years ago.
Loosely translated to mean circle. Mandala In
Nature The "circle with a center" pattern is the
basic structure of creation that is reflected
from the micro to the macro in the world as we
know it. It is a pattern found in nature and is
seen in biology, geology, chemistry, physics and
astronomy. Flowers, the rings found in tree
trunks and the spiraling outward and inward of a
snail's shell all reflect the primal mandala
pattern.
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Examples of Mandalas in Nature
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Mandalas in Art and Culture
The mandala pattern is used in many religious
traditions The Americas Native Americans-
medicine wheels Aztec - calendars In Asia
The Taoist "yin-yang" symbol Tibetan
mandalas Europe Christian Cathedrals -
Rosetta windows
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Mandala examples in Art and Culture
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Mandala Silk Paintings
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