Sticky Wax: was: RE: [lace] Lace dye
At 06:01 PM 12/9/05 -, Jane Bawn wrote: Joy Beeson wrote For information about dyes, the Dharma website http://www.dharmatrading.com/ is always the first resort. Unfortunately they do not ship to the UK Though it isn't as informative as the paper catalog was, there's still a lot of data on the website. I found, for example, a list of different kinds of resists, together with an explanation of how gutta resists differ from water-soluble resists, how sticky wax is a cheap substitute for beeswax (though it didn't explain what sticky wax *is*, and maybe it's called something else on your side of the pond), and why batik is done with a mixture of beeswax or sticky wax and paraffine rather than either by itself, how you get the resists out of the fabric when you are done and why some resists are never removed, and what you have to put up with if you don't remove them. I believe that our paraffine is your paraffine wax. I was disappointed that they offer only bleached-white beeswax; I prefer natural yellow. Not that I'd have ever bought a whole pound of it; I use it only for sharpening threads, and the little cake I bought in a fabric store thirty or forty years ago is still going strong (though worn a little flat on one side.) Google said that sticky wax is a wax-based adhesive. I got all excited when I found some gummint-safety PDF on sticky wax that had a composition field, but all it said was petroleum hydrocarbons with additives. It went on to say that it gives off irritating fumes when hot, and if you splash molten wax on yourself you could get burned. Also found that surfboarders, orthodontics makers, museums, and people who show off horse figurines use it. I'm not at all sure all those folks are using the *same* sticky wax! The figurine fans use it to stick bits in the horse's mouths, the museums keep artifacts from falling off the shelf, people who make wax molds glue the molds together with it -- seems to have originated as a glue to set candles in their holders. I've also seen cheeses and frozen meats that had been dipped in a sticky wax -- red for the cheeses, and an apparently-natural yellow for the meats, which had been placed in cheesecloth bags first to make it easy to get the wax off. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we are sleeping under our first blanket of snow. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Lace dye
Came across this 'lace dye'. It isn't specifically intended for lace, as the label on the bottle states 'craft dye'. Has anyone tried doing this. The effects show in the photographs are interesting, but does the dye bleed or can it be made to stay within specific threads. I made a piece recently where I wanted blocks of colour, which was fine if I only used whole stitch for the blocks - I could add and remove a pair of coloured workers as needed. But I really wanted some diagonal 'stripes' of rose ground and another of spiders, where adding and subtracting extra threads wouldn't work. I had thought of fabric dye, but didn't try it as I was convinced that it would bleed into areas where I didn't want it. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lace-Painting-Dyeing-3-bottles-Great-Fun_W0QQitemZ8238436724QQcategoryZ19158QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem or search for item number 8238436724 Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace dye
Jan Gardiner of Lacewing Designs makes one of her designs in natural-coloured silk (a dragon) and then dyes it, and you can attend one of her courses in Salisbury to learn how to do it properly. The fact that the dyes do bleed into each other is a vital part of the appearance of the finished article. Dee Palin Gloucestershire - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace dye
For information about dyes, the Dharma website http://www.dharmatrading.com/ is always the first resort. There are various resists one can paint on a fabric to define sharp lines. Some wash out, some don't -- I'd practice on a cheap fabric of the same fiber, then test the thread used in the lace. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where we've just had our first heavy snowfall. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Lace dye
Joy Beeson wrote For information about dyes, the Dharma website http://www.dharmatrading.com/ is always the first resort. Unfortunately they do not ship to the UK I think the dyes are mainly for bought or machine made lace. This was showcased in a quilt called the Colour Purple by Jenny Haskins http://www.ericas.com/colourpurple.htm I'm a bit old fashioned. I don't mind tinkering with bought or machine made lace but when I have spent hours on a piece of hand made lace I think I would be too nervous to consider dyeing it. Jane Hants UK - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] Lace dye
On 12/9/05, Jean Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Came across this 'lace dye'. It isn't specifically intended for lace, as the label on the bottle states 'craft dye'. Has anyone tried doing this. The effects show in the photographs are interesting, but does the dye bleed or can it be made to stay within There is a little book of clown dolls and similar in bobbin lace (Kloskant in drie dimensies), which I bought thinking I might learn something new about using colour - yes I did, but not with coloured thread - she used textile paint to get the blocks of colour. If I would try it, I would buy the inexpensive craft paint used for stencilling fabric. It is set with an iron, and won't bleed once set. Dab it, rather than paint it, in place, with a bit of sponge. In the UK you have a line of pigments for textiles which should be good (and which we can get here, but they are more expensive than the stencil paint). I can't recall the name exactly, but I think it is called Pigma HTH! -- bye for now Bev in Sooke BC (on Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) Cdn. floral bobbins www.woodhavenbobbins.com - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
