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We
offer a range of water based acrylic paints specifically formulated
for use on both natural and synthetic fabrics. Most of them
can also be used to paint paper and card and some, such as
Jacquard Lumiere are effective on knitwear, leather, wood,
and clay.
Silk and fabric paints contain pigments that settle on the
surface of the fibre from which the fabric is woven, along
with a fixative to attach the particles. The basic paint is
made from the same insoluble dye particles as used in artists
acrylic paints suspended in water and with a higher concentration
of fixative. The fixative is set by ironing the back of the
fabric for 3-4 minutes using a 'cotton' setting.
 There
are several ranges of iron fix silk paints which have been
formulated to simulate dyes as closely as possible. They are
perfect for the beginner and the available mediums can be
used to create a variety of exciting techniques. All are intermixable
to create the precise colour you require. Once the silk paint
is set on the silk fabric, the fabric retains a high sheen
and fluidity.
Deka
Silk paints, Javana
silk paints and Pébéo
Setasilk paints offer hundreds of colours between them. They
are all water based and therefore intermixable.
Jacquard
Dye-na-flow is a free flowing liquid colour, very
similar to a dye, and can be used for silk painting, tie dyeing,
batik and airbrushing. It can also be used to good effect
on paper for water colour effects.
Other paints, such as Deka
Permanent, are thicker in their consistency and
can be used as they are or diluted with water. There is a
high level of pigment and binder in these paints which makes
them more opaque on darker fabrics.
Jacquard also make an excellent metallic
powder pigment, Pearl-Ex. The fine powders can be combined
with Jacquard Colourless Extender to create metallic paints or
they can be combined with Selectasine Binders to create inks
for screen printing.
The following samples give
an indication of how some of the paints behave on fabric
and paper.
Samples on cotton (from left,
below)
Deka Permanent, Jacquard Lumiere, Jacquard Textile,
Jacquard Dye-na-flow and Pebeo Setacolor Soleil.
The
Jacquard Dye-na-flow and Pebeo Setacolor Soleil paints
are more fluid than the other paints which have a higher
content of acrylic. The acrylic binder makes these
paints suitable for painting on other surfaces such as
wood, knits and clay. It is the acrylic binder
which makes all these paints permanent on fabric, once
it has been heat-set with an iron.
Samples of Jacquard
Lumiere (from left, below) on
Leather Lokta paper, cotton, Lokta
paper and denim
Colours used (from top) are Silver, Bright Gold, Hi-lite
Blue & Hi-lite Red. The acrylic binder in
the Jacquard Lumiere paints stretches with the fabric,
making it ideal for dance wear, leotards and knits.
Samples of Jacquard Pearl-Ex
stamp pads on Leather Lokta denim and paper
We are
running down our stock of stamp pads but the same effect
can be achieved by combining the Pearl-Ex with
Jacquard Colourless Extender
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