Above: These are some of the things I use to paint on silk.
How to paint on silk – translations from French to English, English to French:
English | French | |
painting on silk, silk painting painting on silk and wool |
peinture sur soie peinture sur soie et laine |
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the colours / colors some colours / colors |
les couleurs des couleurs |
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paintbrush paintbrush for stencils fan paintbrush foam brush sponge (for painting) |
pinceaux pinceaux stencils pinceaux eventail pinceaux mousse eponge |
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fabric, textile, material | tissus | |
silk | soie | |
scarf, scarves square scarf |
foulard, foulards, echarpe foulard carré |
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tie | cravatte | |
cushion cover | enveloppe de coussin | |
steam seting, steaming steamer steam fix in steamer (to set dye) horizontal steamer iron-set, fix colour with an iron |
le fixage etuve fixable en étuve etuve horizontale thermofixable |
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gutta water-based gutta, in a tube solvent-based gutta gutta bottle (squeeze bottle) nib for gutta bottle |
serti serti eau, serti eau tube serti Essence F pipette plume pour pipette |
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textile pen, texta pen | feutre | |
stop-flow, anti-spread | antifusant | |
Essence F | ||
dilutant | diluant | |
hand cleaner, soap | savon pour les mains | |
Chinese ink | encre de chine | |
frame wooden frame frame with sharp needles attached |
cadre cadre en bois cadre picots |
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thumbtacks | pushpins | |
hand-rolled hem on silk hand-rolled hem by the metre |
le bourdonnage le bourdonnage metre lineaire |
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silk books by Lydie Otellart – “Peinture sur Soie un Art, des Techniques”, “Guide de la Peinture/soie” |
livres de peindre sur soie |
Above: Silk is stretched tightly on a woode frame and held securely in place with thumbtacks which are easy to remove.
Painting on silk using the wax Batik method
English | French | |
wax hot wax heater |
cire chauffe cire |
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djanting | djanting | |
cracking wax | cire a craqueler | |
cold wax | cire froide |
If you’d like to learn to paint on silk, I teach classes in Paris and Sydney, and would love to show you this wonderul ancient art of textile painting and design.
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