Methocel or carageenan best waterbased paints.
Alum marbling fabric.
You can do this the night before.
The trick to adhering the paint to fabric is presoaking the fabric in alum.
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Marbled fabrics drying on clothes line.
Directions for fabric marbling.
Bandanas cotton hankies and even t shirts can be marbled not to mention scarves.
It bonds readily and permanently to other molecules creating a link between fiber and marbling pigment.
Fabric scarves ties or other items to marble we used sh silk hankies and mccb mercerized combed cotton broadcloth.
Alum will help the color from the paint set on the.
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Our aim in mordanting is to evenly apply an alum solution to our fabric before marbling just enough for a permanent print.
Gently pick up the fabric.
Hang to completely dry before marbling.
Let the alum dissolve then soak the fabric for 20 minutes.
Laying alum sized fabric on floating paints.
Mix 3 tablespoons alum per 1 quart of hot water.
Gently pick up your fabric which would have in turn picked up the paint patterns.
Fabric marbling is the art of floating paints on top of a thick solution called size manipulating the paints into patterns then transferring the pattern to an object by gently placing the object on top of the solution marbling lets you make your one of a kind quilting or other fabric item.
Remember that alum is the compound most commonly used to mordant both fabric and paper.