The Fibre Reactive Dyes, along with an assistant, are used as dyes for cotton and other plant fibres as well as on silk. Jacquard Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are fine glistening mica powders for use in viscose mediums such as resin, lacquer, varnish and binders, and Jacquard SolarFast dyes work with sunlight to produce “cyanotype” blue print effects – but in a range of different colours!

Each dye type may also need a mordant or assistant to improve its effectiveness in creating a wash and light fast colour. It is used extensively in the exhibition and display industry and is suitable for short and medium term use. Being so light in weight Westfoam is very easy to transport and can be enhanced and coloured with acrylic paints, indian inks, marker pens and spray paint. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Coloured pencils contain pigment mixed with a binder and watercolour pencils have coloured or graphite leads which are soluble in water. Continue reading… Transforming a fibre into a yarn is just the first step in producing your own knitted or woven garments and furnishings. Jacquard Procion MX and Jacquard Acid Dyes are popular with hand dyers, while iDye, a powder dye in a dissolvable pack, has been formulated dyeing polyester and other synthetics. Our InSite® Reveal® foam centre is engineered to retain its thickness, it ensures that your projects are consistently flawless. Traditionally used for mounting artwork, foamboard great model making and architectural sketch modelling material.

Our blogs contains a number of posts to help get you started with these printing techniques for fabrics and paper. expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] The hand cards are manufactured to the specifications developed by the Howard Brothers Company from 1866. The white and cream fibres can be dyed to any colour using Acid Dyes for protein fibres such as wool, silk or mohair, or Procion MX fibre reactive dyes for cellulose plant fibres such as cotton, flax and bamboo. The Matchless spinning wheel is the most responsive wheel available today and comes with single treadle or double treadle action along with a wide range of options and accessories.Finally to complete the range they now manufacture ordinary soft stick pastels used for creating broad sweeps of colour. expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] The range of Artist materials which carry the Caran d’Ache name is considerable.

The 25 gauge is for general felting and shaping for British wools and the 38 gauge is for finer fibre and detailed shaping. There is an assortment of Selectasine binders which are used in combination with the pigments to create screen printing inks which are wash and light fast on fabric once heat cured. It can be cut easily with a craft knife to give the sharpest of detail to any construction, from a product prototype to a scale model of an entire city. Essdee – George Weil supplies a range of synthetic and naturally occurring dyes as well as pigmented paints for colouring the fabrics, yarns and fibres used by textile artists and students. The tool section includes a firing kiln for your Art Clay Silver pieces, which are also easily fired on a gas hob or with a blowtorch, while the texture sheets provide beautiful patterning on the surface.Fimo – FIMO is a plastic compound with a wide range of uses, from play material for children, jewellery from craftsmen to professional model making for architects, designers and miniaturists.