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Flour Paste Resist

5/5/2015

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I decided to have a go at flour paste resist on cotton fabric after seeing the results my friend Sandra had achieved.

First of all I made a batter of pretty much half and half flour and water.  Then, as it was a lovely day, I set up the fabric outside and spread the batter over the whole surface, then made marks at random with any old implements that came to hand.
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On a sunny day it didn't take more than a couple of hours for it to dry - it does need to be absolutely dry, but I guess it could take overnight on a different day indoors.

Once it was dry, I scrunched the fabric up to create cracks and spaces for the colour to penetrate.
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I used fabric paint on this occasion, although you could also use acrylic paint or procion dye so long as the fabric was previously soda-soaked.  Fabric paint worked well.  I worked it well into the fabric and into the cracks and hung it up to dry.  I used two or three colours and worked them into each other.  Then hung up the fabric to dry out on the line.
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It dried fairly quickly in the sun and then it was quite satisfying to pick off all the dried flour.  I ended up scraping the last bits off.  It looked really good.
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