batik is beautiful

batik and procion MX

Batik II

Needs no words. This is batik. The paint is Dye-na-flow. I bought it and batik materials from Gunther at http://www.patchworkshop.de/. If you have never been there, take a look. A candystore for dyers and art quilters!

I used bees wax with parrafin but also soya wax. Be aware of the coloured newspaper photo's when ironing to remove the wax. Some of them - mostly when there is a lot of wax on the cloth - will give stains.... and they will stay there, unfortunately.

It is possible to remove the soya wax with water, but I ironed it too because dye-na-flow is a paint and has to be heat set first.

batik

This is the first batik cloth I made. I attend the course 'Quilten Speciaal' and last saturday Els van Baarle showed us how to make our first steps with batik and wax. It was a very inspiring day. More cloth will follow soon.