Stamping on Satin?

Jul 08, 2003 1 Replies
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Hello all, me again!



I picked up some white satin gloves CHEAP ($2 a pair) from the wedding aisle at WalMart this week, thought it'd be fun to try some projects with them. I have a couple in mind, but I'm not sure which inks would work best. I don't have a pair in front of me, but they may be the nylon-satin-stuff they use.



I have at my disposal some Adirondack inks, Ranger Archivals, Fresco chalks, and a few miscellanious odds and ends, as well as art inks, pigment ink pads, daubers (pigment), and your basic generic dye inks. And I do have a couple of fabric ink pads, but they're bright colored, and I want to go antiqued look--it's hard to find anything "antiqued" or muted in fabric inks, unfortuntately.



Any suggestions? Do you think tea/coffee staining them for aging would work well?



Thank you!



K/B


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I'm not sure you'll get great results on satin - I'd imagine the weave would encourage dye-inks to bleed. You might try Colorbox Crafters' ink or some other heat-setting pigment-based ink which would be likely to stay put better. Heat carefully; if they're synthetic, they may melt.

You could try, but don't be surprised if the stain washes right out. Cheap synthetics are basically plastic, and it's hard to get them to dye evenly.

-- Pat Kight snipped-for-privacy@peak.org

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