Re: patterns, silks, leather

Posted by Kenzi on November 08, 1999 at 23:00:09:

In Reply to: patterns, silks, leather posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on November 07, 1999 at 15:15:49:

: try. Make sure the paste is on the cloth, not floating on the
fluff

I agree with Catherine here...this was the biggest problem for me
painting on cloth. You have to kind of push the henna into the
fabric, without ruining your line. When you are doing henna on skin,
you can push it onto the skin if the line sits up on hairs...or it
will flatten out as the skin moves (or when you put on the lemon
sugar or New Skin).

I drew my design on first as I wasn't doing freehand designs and had
to fit it onto a limited area. I found it more nerve wracking than
henna on skin because the henna is harder to remove in the case of a
smudge or a mistake.

I used linen and found that it didn't wick the stain.

Follow-ups:

• Re: linen Natasha Papousek 17:58:40 11/09/99 (0)