Gently pick up the fabric.
Alum marbling fabric.
Hang to completely dry before marbling.
Alum will help the color from the paint set on the.
The new jacquard marbling colors are the very best but any of the following can be used.
The trick to adhering the paint to fabric is presoaking the fabric in alum.
Dwight rinsing off marbled fabric while barb and jan watch.
Let the alum dissolve then soak the fabric for 20 minutes.
Our aim in mordanting is to evenly apply an alum solution to our fabric before marbling just enough for a permanent print.
You can do this the night before.
Bandanas cotton hankies and even t shirts can be marbled not to mention scarves.
Remember that alum is the compound most commonly used to mordant both fabric and paper.
Marbled fabrics drying on clothes line.
Laying alum sized fabric on floating paints.
Textile artist natalie stopka who creates marbled works and teaches workshops on large scale fabric marbling says marbling is a very expressive art.
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.
Directions for fabric marbling.
Mix 3 tablespoons alum per 1 quart of hot water.
Methocel or carageenan best waterbased paints.
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Gently pick up your fabric which would have in turn picked up the paint patterns.